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Stephen King Readalikes for Scaredy-Cats

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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn give their picks for Stephen King read-alikes in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Duchess by Design by Maya Rodale and What Would Cleopatra Do? by Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates. 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.   Books Discussed Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C Dao (Nov 6) Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon Perfect Days by Raphael Montes Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (tw: child abuse, sort of?) The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand Out by Natsuo Kirino (tw: sexual assault, abuse) The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma The Book of M by Peng Shepherd Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.7

This is episode 154 and we are recording on

0:39.7

October 23rd. I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you

0:45.1

from Book Riot. How's it going, Amanda? I just messed up that agenda all kinds of ways.

0:49.8

It's totally fine. I did it. I did it anyway. You caught it. Good job. We copy and paste to like the agenda from last week and I forgot to change the episode number and the date, but your girl is good on the fly. Not me, Jen. I'm obviously not good on the fly. What's you reading? Oh my goodness. I just started Bad Blood by John Cariru, which I think I'm the last staff person to read.

1:17.7

Nope, I haven't read it.

1:19.1

Okay. Well, that means to me go better.

1:20.0

Okay.

1:20.4

So, Jess, who was a book writer and is now on staff on the sales team, read it like months ago, and raved about it, and what a

1:28.0

bonkers story it was.

1:29.4

And so it, like, slowly made its way through the bookwright staff, as titles often do.

1:34.6

And so I finally got it on library holds.

1:37.7

It took forever.

1:38.8

And it is, as promised, completely friggin bonkers.

1:42.8

It's like a Silicon Valley story, not story,

1:46.1

it's nonfiction, about a company called Theranos that was started by a 22-year-old,

1:51.9

technically a woman, I guess, in California who got...

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