Mortality and Whatnot

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🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss books on grief and mortality, chapter books, personal favorites and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Only A Mistress Will Do by Jenna Jaxon and The Baker Street Four from Insight Editions. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 Lost Stars by Claudia Gray Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (original rec from Nisi Shawl) The Mysterious Moonstone by Eric Luper Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown The Hour of the Land by Terry Tempest Williams Desert Notes by Barry Lopez Grief is a Thing With Feathers by Max Porter Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Bestiary by Donika Kelly Smith Blue by Camille T. Dungy Guidebook to Relative Strangers (June 13 2017) My Fair Concubine by Jeannie Lin An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free.
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0:16.6	New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com.
0:20.9	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:25.8	This is episode 75 and we are recording on April 4th.
0:29.3	I'm Jed Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:34.4	Greetings.
0:35.3	Hello, it's Tuesday and I have Moana songs stuck in my head.
0:39.4	You have what?
0:40.4	Moana song, songs from the Moana.
0:43.1	I thought you said the thong song, which is entirely different.
0:46.9	Well, okay, now I'm going to have that stuck in my head, in addition to Disney songs,
0:52.1	which is like a whole level of weird.
0:53.9	I was like, all right, Tuesday, after dark, I guess.
0:57.7	She got dumps like a truck.
0:59.0	I think, oh, my God.
1:01.3	Now they're like melding together in my head and it's terrible.
1:05.0	I still haven't seen Moana and I'm ashamed.
1:07.0	Oh, my God, you have to go see it or it's, you can borrow it from iTunes now. Like it's on your, it's on your TV if you have that. It's so good. Well, that's great. I wanted to take my kids to see it. But I'm unsure of how my children who are just recently six will behave in a theater for two hours. Well, yeah. Yeah, no, definitely. It's great.
1:28.9	Lynn Manuel Miranda did music and sang in a couple of the songs, actually.
1:34.4	And the guy from Flight of the Concords, Germaine, What's His Face?
1:37.9	Yes.
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