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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss poetry, dinosaur books for grown-ups, Roman historical fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by our Blind Date with a Book giveaway, Quantum by international bestselling author Patricia Cornwell, and Change is the only Constant by Ben Orlin, in Hardcover from Black Dog and Leventhal. Subscribe to 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 Like A Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, by Angela Garbes (rec’d by Cameron) And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready, by Meaghan O’Connell (rec’d by Cameron) Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Years and Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son by Anne Lamott (rec’d by Cameron) Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives by Annie Murphy Paul (rec’d by Sarah) Security by Gina Wohlsdorf (rec’d by Ashely) Books Discussed The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling To the End of the Land by David Grossman, transl by Jessica Cohen How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Bone Witch series by Rin Chupeco Wild Embers by Nikita Gill The Book of Delights by Ross Gay Warcross by Marie Lu The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder I, Claudius by Robert Graves The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.4

Ever walked by a shelf in your local bookstore full of books wrapped in brown paper? Those are blind dates with books where you buy a book without knowing the title, the cover, the author, anything, and it's a great way to discover new books you might never have picked for yourself. We're giving away five blind dates with books. I will go to my local indie in Richmond. It's called Chapsui and pick five at

0:38.8

random off their shelves to mail to five random winners. Actually, I've already done it. I did it this

0:42.7

weekend. To enter this win, to enter to win your own blind date with the book, go to bookwright.com

0:47.6

slash blind date and sign up for our upcoming read this book newsletter where we will send you a

0:52.4

single solitary book recommendation once a week. That's bookwrite.com slash blind date to enter.

1:09.5

This is the Get Booked Podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

1:12.9

This is episode 203 and we are recording on October 15th.

1:15.9

I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot.

1:20.0

Whoa, boop, boop, boop.

1:21.7

Hello.

1:22.8

I think I just did the blues clues music.

1:25.2

I wasn't sure what music it was.

1:29.7

It's been a while since I've watched Blues Clues. Yeah. Now, did you know that Blue's Clues now has a Filipino host? That's amazing.

1:37.0

Yeah. That's super cool. Did you know that when I was, this is a good start for us.

1:45.2

When I was at the bookstore in New York, we did an off-site event at the original

1:50.7

Blues Clues hosts like fancy apartment.

1:53.1

I didn't get to go.

1:54.0

My coworker went and she said it was bananas and also that he was super nice.

1:59.7

Well, I would imagine.

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