The Gods Are Jerks
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4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free. |
| 0:10.2 | Save and splurge at Arcado, the online supermarket. Geographical and other restrictions. Minimum spend, 60 pounds and charges apply. |
| 0:16.6 | New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com. |
| 0:20.9 | This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations. |
| 0:25.7 | This is episode 96 and we are recording on September 5th. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from Book Riot. |
| 0:33.8 | What's up Amanda? |
| 0:35.2 | It's back to school. |
| 0:36.7 | Oh, it is. It is. I feel like Virginia goes back way late, or at least Richmond does. I've been seeing like first day of school obligatory, you know, kid photos on Facebook for like two weeks now. My just went back today. But I'm very happy. |
| 0:52.3 | Well, I think Philly is the same because when I went out on my run this |
| 0:55.0 | morning, there were a bunch of kids walking around and I heard a lot of parents being like, |
| 0:58.8 | happy first day. So I think we are on the same schedule as you, perhaps. What are you reading? |
| 1:06.9 | I am reading The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, which I can't believe is not buzzier. |
| 1:13.4 | I don't know exactly when it came out. |
| 1:15.0 | It was a couple of months ago. |
| 1:17.0 | But I started it this weekend when it was raining and gross and dreary because I heard that it was like a Victorian kind of mystery. |
| 1:23.5 | And it's so much fun. |
| 1:25.1 | If you are at all into like Victorian stuff, the main character, I mean, instead of Victorian England, |
| 1:30.4 | the main character is a widow of a guy of like a really physically abusive husband. |
| 1:35.3 | And now that her husband is dead, she's just decided to do whatever she wants. |
| 1:38.5 | And what she wants to do is like move to the middle of nowhere and play in the mud and look for fossils. |
| 1:42.7 | So like if you like, what was that Elizabeth Gilbert book about the lady who studies |
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