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4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss Moroccan authors, secret societies, nonfiction audiobooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert and our library cart giveaway. 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 I Thought It Was Just Me by Brene Brown Pit Bull by Bronwen Dickey The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami The Happy Marriage by Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated by Andre Nafis-Sahely Laila Lalami on Moroccan literature Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman (trigger warning: sexual assault) The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff Dune by Frank Herbert Genre fiction classics post One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa The Secret History by Donna Tartt Labyrinth by Kate Mosse The Earth Moved by Amy Stewart Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, read by the author, cosigned by contributor Ashley Holstrom A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn Aunt Dimity’s Death by Nancy Atherton (rec’d by Sarah Nicolas) My Two Grannies by Floella Benjamin, illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match by Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.3	This is the Get Booked Podcast a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:25.1	This is episode 116. We are recording on January 30th. I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with
0:30.1	Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Yay. Yay. Hello. What's
0:37.1	you reading, Jen?
0:38.6	Well, I have been, like everything that I'm reading right now is for the show.
0:43.4	But also, I have been reading.
0:45.9	I thought it was just me by Brune Brown since November, which is kind of hilarious because it's not a long book.
0:52.9	It's like very short. but I've just been like
0:56.7	picking it up and reading in little bits and putting it down. So I've been reading it for
1:00.3	actually three months. And I'm determined to finish it by the end of January. But it's actually
1:06.3	it's her, I want to say it's her first published book and it's all about women and shame and,
1:12.0	um, like how you can reclaim your brain basically from all of those negative reinforcing things
1:19.6	that happen in society and sometimes from our families and all of that good stuff. Um,
1:24.2	it's very good. It's very good. I like it a lot. I mean, I like Brne Brown, though.
1:28.5	She's, she is sometimes not my favorite, but mostly she is. And so I will take it.
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