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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss fun magical reads, trilogies, non-scary true crime, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater by Alanna Okun and She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Blood of a Thousand Stars by Rhoda Belleza The Beauty by Aliya Whitely The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Death Going Down by Maria Angelica Bosco translated by Lucy Greaves The Hare by Cesar Aira Shades of Magic by VE Schwab The Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin (trigger warning: harm to children) The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Post: books set in New Orleans Voodoo Dreams by Jewell Parker Rhodes Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams Half An Inch of Water by Percival Everett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.9	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:35.7	This is episode 124 and we are recording on March 20th.
0:39.6	I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:44.5	Hi. Hello. Are you ready for the snow?
0:48.3	I know. It's almost April, y'all. What? Could we be done now? Could we maybe be done? I would appreciate that. It's supposed April, y'all. Like, what? What? Could we be done now?
0:54.9	Could we maybe be done? I would appreciate that. It's supposed to snow both tomorrow and then also Saturday. What? Yeah, and I'm going to D.C., like me and my mom and my foster daughter are going to the March for our lives in D.C. on Saturday. so we're just gonna, I't know, I'm going to introduce my foster child to political activism in like the worst possible weather.
1:15.6	Yeah. I hadn't thought about that. There's a march here too on Saturday. Well, we'll see what
1:20.2	happens, I guess. What are you reading? Oh, man. Let me tell you.
1:28.1	Let me tell you.
1:29.2	I just finished last night, the beauty, which is by Alia Whiteley.
1:33.8	Alia Whiteley.
1:35.9	And this is a, it's a weird fiction, right?
1:38.6	So like, bizarreo, fungal weirdness.
1:42.0	And it's post-apocalyptic in our world.
1:44.9	And it takes place in like this commune.
1:47.3	And the apocalypse that happens is that all of the women on the planet die of this
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