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🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss fall mood reading, books about friendship, horror short stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the GCP Clubcar and The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas. 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 The Tangled Tree by David Quammen Headscarves and Hymens by Mona Eltahawy Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector (1970s, Brazil), transl. Stefan Tobler Angelica Gorodischer (Argentina), Kalpa Imperial, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin All Systems Red by Martha Wells Daniel H Wilson (Robopocalypse or Guardian Angels and Other Monsters) Weathering by Lucy Wood The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins She Matters by Susanna Sonnenberg Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam Severance by Ling Ma The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Ortberg (published under Mallory Ortberg) Penance by Kanae Minato, transl by Philip Gabriel Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami, transl. by Allison Markin Powell (rec’d by Pierce Alquist) North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud Fen by Daisy Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:35.2	This is episode 150 and we are recording on September 25th.
0:38.7	I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:42.8	150! Is that true?
0:45.3	I, unless I typoed it, which is possible. No, I think it's true.
0:49.6	Yeah, because last week you were with... Well, I'm glad we're actually together for episodes.
0:53.5	Yay!
0:54.6	We've been doing these like guest posts because of all our travel schedules.
0:58.3	Yeah. So that's nice. We have nothing special plan for this guys.
1:02.9	Well, I mean chili not in honor of this, but let's just pretend. Last night was the first
1:08.3	chilly night of this ball. So I feel like that's a get-booked,
1:12.1	you know, milestone, as it were. Yeah, I wish we lived in the same city so we could have,
1:16.4	like, chilly nights. Oh, me too. Now I'm sad.
1:22.3	Wamp-w-w-w-w-w-w-n. Anyway, what are you reading? I am, well, so I'm on all the books this week.
1:28.8	So listeners from all the books, you are going to hear me talk about this twice.
1:32.0	But I'm reading The Tangled Tree by David Quaman, which is making me feel smarter page by page.
1:40.9	He's one of my favorite science writers.
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