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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss actionable activism, romances with elves, unrequited love, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to an indie bookstore! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Night Boat to Tangier and That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry; The Heart’s Invisible Furies and Shuggie Bain (rec’d by Elizabeth) Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World and A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon (rec’d by Amber) The Guest List by Lucy Foley (rec’d by Becky) Books Discussed In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (tw: domestic abuse) Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker (sample poem) Uptown Thief by Aya de Leon Travelers Along The Way by Aminah Mae Safi Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (tw: rape) Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju Bonus TV rec: Our Beloved Summer on Netflix side character, from Jamie Geekerella by Ashley Poston The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad Elvish by SG Prince Witchmark by CL Polk (cw: PTSD, harm to women and children) For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.5	This is The Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:50.3	This is episode 327, and we are recording on May 3rd.
0:51.7	I'm Jen Worthington.
0:52.9	I'm here with Amanda Nelson.
0:55.8	We're coming to you from Book Riot and the simultaneous fires of our rage slash exhaustion with the world.
1:02.3	Show title. Yes. For those of you listening, yes, last night, the news from the Supreme Court
1:08.9	came out about Roe. And so we were all just kind of in a
1:12.3	haze of sadness and incandescent rage.
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1:17.7	Which, like, you know, I live there most of the time, but it's really elevated.
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