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🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss books for garden inspiration, sci-fi for book club, Portrait of a Lady on Fire read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Penguin Teen, and A Drop of Midnight by Jason Diakité. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. 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. Feedback Sarah Dunant: Birth of Venus, In The Company of the Courtesan, Sacred Hearts, Blood & Beauty, and In the Name of the Family (rec’d by Isabelle) Books Discussed Untamed by Glennon Doyle The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked, edited by Sheila Black, Annabelle Hayse, and Michael Northen The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham (tw: domestic abuse, alcoholism) The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: domestic violence, self-harm) All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry Claire De Witt and the Bohemian Highway (#2 in series) by Sara Gran Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older The Chilling Effect series by Valerie Valdes After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.7	This is episode 257 and we're recording on November 10th. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen
0:49.2	Northington and we're coming to you from Book Riot. Wow. How to make words. I, you know, we've been having
0:58.6	this problem for a few months, how to make words. This week, it's for different reasons. It's like,
1:03.6	shock. Not shock. Kind of shock. I don't know. Yeah. Now for me, it's more of like, well,
1:08.5	what do I do with my brain now? Yeah, I was telling Amanda before we started recording. And now I will tell you all that like my panic brain has just latched on to the like new potential problems. But I will take that over the other potential problems that would have happened had the election gone the other way. Any day. I will take it any day.
1:26.9	Yes, 1,000 percent.
1:29.1	So, you know, if I'm going to be panicked at something, I'd rather be panicked about this.
1:35.4	Yeah, I feel pretty good. I don't think, like, my objective brain knows that there's very little
1:41.0	that he can do to stop what's happening from happening. And what he is trying to do is all functionally nonsense. But there's very little that he can do to stop what's happening from happening and what he is trying to do is
1:45.8	all functionally nonsense. But there's always still, you know, I think if 2020 has taught us anything,
1:50.5	it's that anything can happen. So there's a little part of me that's like holding on not able to
1:56.2	relax until we watch him walk out of the White House in January. But for the most part, I feel pretty good.
2:01.0	And I'm like very relieved and all of that have a huge spiritual hangover. We'll see what happens with
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