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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn recommend feminist literature, summer reads, surprising nonfiction, and more in this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by After Anna by Alex Lake and To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit Shrill by Lindy West Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny Redefining Realness by Janet Mock Carry the One by Carol Anshaw Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng We Were Liars by E Lockhart Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Modern Lovers by Emma Straub Bloodline by Claudia Gray Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams K Blows Top by Peter Carlson A Covert Affair by Jennet Conant Shelter by Jung Yun Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Cristina Garcia Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:28.8

to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:35.2

This is episode 40 and we are recording on Tuesday

0:37.6

August 2nd. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from

0:41.7

Book Riot. Welcome. We're hooray. Everybody's back. Everybody's back. You were at GeekyCon

0:48.3

for a while. I was. I was. It was delightful and I got to wear my modern day abhorsen

0:53.4

cosplay.

0:56.6

And you were in Seattle and you saw Adele.

0:57.3

I did.

0:58.4

I did.

1:03.4

I flew to the opposite side of the country to see Adele, who was excellent and very graciously acknowledged that all of her songs are super depressing, which I did not consider

1:08.1

before I went to see her.

1:09.3

Like, I'm going to spend this entire show sitting down being sad. So she tried to be funny and like bantery in between songs because she knew that her songs were upsetting. Yeah. So that was nice. I didn't even think about that. You can't really like dance to Adele. There's no dancing. There's no dancing. And her, her, um, her accent's really great. She's got the like cockney thing, which she plays up to an American audience to like good effect. She curses a lot. I love it. Anyway. Amazing. So I don't know how to segue. Maybe you were at geeky con, so let's talk about another.

1:45.0

There you go. That's real bad.

1:45.8

I'm sorry, y'all.

1:46.4

Speaking of cons.

1:47.8

There we go.

1:50.3

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that you should join us at Book Riot Live, which is November 12th and 13th.

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