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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss circus stories, creepy but not scary reads, Gilmore Girls read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. 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. Feedback The All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness (rec’d by Jessica) The Will Darling trilogy by KJ Charles (rec’d by JL) Books Discussed The Wanderers by Meg Howrey Famous Men Who Never Lived by K Chess (cw: assault, bigotry) The Circus Rose by Betsy Cornwell The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore (tw: child abuse, mention of rape) Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: racism, domestic violence, harm to children) Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer The Silence of Bones by June Hur She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Loyal League series by Alyssa Cole Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley (cw: attempted rape) Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:23.9

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0:25.1

Twinings.

0:27.8

Alive in every drop. This is The Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:46.3

This is episode 292, and we are recording on August 3rd.

0:50.8

I'm Jen Northington.

0:51.8

I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we're coming to you from Book Riot.

0:55.3

Yes, we are. And I am back from vacation. Yeah, you all maybe didn't notice or did or I don't know,

1:00.0

but we took last week off. Because we were in various and sundry other places that were not here.

1:05.0

Yeah. Amanda sat on a boat. She did. And I went to Ireland and that was actually pretty amazing. And also like

1:12.8

extremely, literally everyone in Ireland follows mask protocol, which is a refreshing change of pace

1:18.6

from the United States. So good job, Ireland. Keep up the good work. You're going to make it.

1:25.3

Are they still on like a mandate? Yeah.

1:29.2

Oh, okay. Yeah. Interesting.

1:29.7

Cool.

1:35.8

Yeah. Yeah, the EU's vaccination rates are still pretty behind because of the slowness of the rollout. So I think it's taking a while. But anyway, enough about that. How is everything?

1:41.3

You know, good. I mean, it's rolling along.

1:47.1

Yeah. That sounds right. That sounds right.

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