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🗓️ 20 September 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss creepy reads, social justice ammunition, witchy reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Girls Made of Glass and Snow by Melissa Bashardoust, Lit Chat from Book Riot and Abrams Noterie, and Brain Rules for Aging Well by John Medina. 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 Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams The Perfume Garden by Kate Lord Brown The Poem of The Cid by Anonymous Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton Single Carefree Mellow by Katherine Heiny Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein Fen by Daisy Johnson White Rage by Carol Anderson The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed (trigger warning for everything, basically) The Djinn Falls in Love, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin Brimstone by Cherie Priest Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor 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.
0:10.2	Save and splurge at Arcado, the online supermarket. Geographical and other restrictions. Minimum spend, 60 pounds and charges apply.
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.
0:25.7	This is episode 98 and we're recording on September 19th. I'm Jen Northington and I'm here
0:31.0	with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Howdy duty. And Amanda saw
0:36.6	Hillary Clinton last night. Oh my God. I did. I did.
0:40.3	Rebecca and I went to Washington, D.C. to see Hillary talk about her new book. She was hosted by
0:46.6	Politics and Prose, which was awesome. The event was not in Politics and Prose because there were
0:51.7	too many people because hashtag won the popular vote.
0:54.5	So yeah, it was great.
0:56.1	It was great. I've been listening to the audiobook, so I'm like halfway through it already. So like the stuff that she was talking about from the book I'd already read, which was a, you know, whatever. But still, it was nice. That was awesome. Yeah. I mean, like, no matter how you feel about her, it was still a historical thing.
1:11.3	And, like, seeing a person who made history is like, ooh, you know, history is my jam.
1:16.7	That is the truth.
1:19.0	Well, another thing, not as exciting as Hillary Clinton, but another thing that is exciting
1:24.2	is that, as you might have noticed, we have a lot of new podcasts coming out.
1:29.7	And I am super excited for you all to listen to Recommended, which launched this month in September
1:35.6	and features two people, sometimes authors, sometimes generally bookish people, talking about
1:41.4	a book they love. I've been doing some of the interviews, so like I'm
1:46.2	obviously very invested, but I can, like even with that caveat, like these, they're so great.
1:52.3	So we're going to drop in a teaser for episode one, and as of this week, there will be
1:57.2	three whole episodes for you to go listen to if you are interested to hear more.
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