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The Gods Are Jerks

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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss books with gods, weird sci-fi, believable relationships, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Swing Time by Zadie Smith, published by Penguin Books, and A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, published by Counterpoint Press. 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 Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Books About Partition by Female Authors The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai The Dime by Kathleen Kent Modern Lovers by Emma Straub Promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley Borne by Jeff VanderMeer When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon The Chimes by Anna Smaill Maddaddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood (Oryx and Crake) The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (Trigger warning: torture, tons of varieties of violence against basically everyone) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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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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