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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss platonic relationship reads, great chapter books, political memoirs, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Flatiron Books, publishers of Miss Austen by Gill Hornby, and Wednesday Books. 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 An Equal Music, by Vikrim Seth and The Fionavar Tapestry series by Guy Gavriel Kay (The Summer Tree #1) (rec’d by Alicia) Sourdough by Robin Sloan (rec’d by Roxane) Books Discussed Lab Girl by Hope Jahren New Waves by Kevin Nguyen Thea Stilton series by Thea and Geronimo Stilton Great Chapter Books post Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson, beloved of Liberty These Truths by Jill Lepore The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy The Tufa series by Alex Bledsoe (The Hum and the Shiver #1) The Acacia series by David Anthony Durham (The War with the Mein #1) Dealing with Dragons series by Patricia Wrede (rec’d by Aly) An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice Lazy B by Sandra Day O’Connor (rec’d by Jeff) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza,

0:07.3

you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free.

0:10.2

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0:12.9

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0:14.5

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0:16.6

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0:35.5

This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:39.9

This is episode 226, and we are recording on April 7th. I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from

0:45.0

Book Ride in Quarantine. Week three? Week four. Something like that, I am unsure.

0:51.4

It's been a bit. It's a bit of time. Yeah.

1:00.5

And I should specify, I'm not under full quarantine, just like isolation, physical distancing, going out as little as possible.

1:05.1

So, but it still feels like a lot.

1:10.0

It's a good shorthand for, I think, what everyone is experiencing. How you and your children are all still alive, so that's good.

1:13.8

We are so far.

1:17.2

They're fine.

1:18.2

You know, like, they're the perfect age for this kind of thing because they're not so young

1:21.8

that they need my constant supervision, but they're not old enough to be complaining

1:24.9

about how this is ruining their life.

1:27.0

Oh, good. You know what I mean? Like, I keep seeing all these articles and stuff on people, my friends who have teenagers who are like, my 16 year old is going to, I'm going to murder them. Because like, you know, everything is a personal affront. Yeah. This is like the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to any of us. But when you're that plus being 16, it's like a horrible combination. Mine are, you know, they're nine. And all they want to do is play Mario Kart and like,

1:49.6

okay. Yeah, right, right. That's not so bad. That does, that does sound pretty solid. Well, I'm, I'm so glad.

1:56.8

I'm so glad. My cats continue to think that this is the best thing that's ever happened to them.

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