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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss complicated relationships, summer books, shocking twists, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall (rec’d by Mel) Prosperity series by Alexis Hall (Jenn cannot believe she forgot!) Books Discussed Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli (tw domestic violence) Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (cw: alcohol abuse) The Guncle by Steven Rowley Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (cw: anxiety) The Guest List by Lucy Foley (tw extreme bullying) The Old Woman With the Knife by Gu Byeong-Mo with Chi-Young Kim (cw: harm to women and children, death of an animal) The Expatriates by Janice YK Lee We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (cw: animal death, harm to children) The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (cw: sooooo much body horror and gore) Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar (cw: harm to children, sexual assault) The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black (The Cruel Prince) A post! Books Like A Court of Thorns and Roses Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr (cw: drug use, coercion, probably things I don’t remember) For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a world of infinite worlds, a world of adventure, possibility and happily ever afters.
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0:44.2	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:48.2	This is episode 328, and we are recording on May 10th.
0:51.9	I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:55.4	Our surprise trip down memory lane about the nanny TV show.
1:01.9	I saw an article, was it in a Wall Street Journal, I think, about how people our age are so overwhelmed that they've gone back to re-watching 90s shows on a loop, which is
1:07.9	absolutely, I'm re-watching Friends right now.
1:10.3	I'm in like season four. So I guess
1:12.0	other people are doing it, but other people are doing it with like Full House and the Nanny.
1:15.6	Yeah. Yeah. If I had known you could stream The Nanny somewhere. That's where I obviously
1:19.8	would have started. I did not know. Well, when you're done with friends, you'll have something
1:24.8	to fall back on. I'll go find the Nanny. I would also really like to rewatch Frazier. I think that's going to happen. We tried. I had to piece out.
1:33.5	Oh, no. Well, we got to the season where the actress who's playing Daphne is pregnant and the fat
1:39.4	phobia in that season is horrible. It's so bad.
1:44.5	Friends is like that too.
1:45.8	I was surprised.
1:46.7	There are many ways in which Friends holds up, and there are many ways in which it really does not hold up.
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