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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss books for grieving, romantic comedies, ADHD reading and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Ecco, publisher of Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson and our Romance mailbag giveaway. 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 The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum Blue Nights by Joan Didion The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke Ghost World by Daniel Clowes Julie and Julia by Julie Powell Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Her Halloween Treat by Tiffany Reisz (Men At Work series) Alice Clayton’s Cocktail series (Wallbanger #1) Touched by an Alien by Gini Koch (Katherine “Kitty” Katt series) How the Duke Was Won by Lenora Bell (Disgraceful Dukes series) Impossible Bachelors series by Kieran Kramer (When Harry Met Molly #1) Halfway to the Grave by Jeanine Frost Nine Lives by Dan Baum Voodoo Dreams by Jewell Parker Rhodes A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Siddhartha by Herman Hesse Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward ADHD According to Zoe by Zoe Kessler Driven to Distraction & Delivered From Distraction by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey (recommended by @bookavore) You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy? by Kate Kelly (rec’d by @bookavore) ADHD Weekly newsletter, which is free and sent by Children & Adults with ADHD (CHADD) (rec’d by @bookavore) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Get Books podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:25.8

This is episode 65 and we are recording on January 24th. I'm Jen Northington and I'm here

0:31.1

with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Howdy dody. Hello. We have

0:36.9

triumphed over numerous technical difficulties.

0:39.7

Hopefully we have triumphed.

0:40.9

Maybe I should not get in Wood when I say that.

0:43.7

We're going to do our best.

0:45.2

Yeah.

0:45.6

Hopefully everything goes smoothly.

0:48.2

So welcome to the show.

0:49.6

If you haven't listened to it before, we are, as I said, a reading recommendations

0:53.2

podcast, which means

0:54.1

that you send us questions and we answer them. And the questions can be anything from,

0:58.2

what do I get my great aunt for her birthday? She loves Agatha Christie to I just finished

1:03.4

Harry Potter and I don't know what to read next. To my nephews graduating from college and I want

1:09.1

to get them a book on feminism. Like, you send us the questions and we will answer them.

1:13.3

You can send them to us either by email to the get booked at bookriot.com email address.

1:19.1

You can submit them in the form that's at the bottom of the show notes on the website for every show.

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There's a post.

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