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4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss mysteries, adoption reading, parenting memoirs, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by our $250 B&N gift card giveaway and the Read Harder Challenge for 2017. 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 My Life in France by Julia Child The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub Voracious by Cara Nicoletti 7 by Jen Hatmaker Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott Holy Is the Day by Carolyn Weber (recommended by Kate Scott) Jesus As Mother by Caroline Walker Bynum (recommended by Kristen McQuinn) A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Livia Day, Cafe La Femme series (A Trifle Dead) Attica Locke, Jay Porter series (Black Water Rising) After Birth by Elisa Albert Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos In On It by Elisabeth O’Toole The Interracial Adoption Option by Marlene Gail Fine Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth Atonement by Ian McEwan Midwives by Chris Bohjalian Oxygen by Carol Cassella Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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.
0:21.5	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:26.3	This is episode 61, and we are recording on December 20th.
0:29.9	I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:34.2	Hello.
0:35.1	Hello, and it is cold again here.
0:37.5	Yay, it's almost Christmas.
0:39.6	Woo!
0:41.5	Yeah.
0:42.3	I, like, I don't know.
0:43.7	Christmas is fine.
0:47.5	It's whatever.
0:48.7	Halloween and New Year's are my favorite holidays.
0:51.2	New Year's.
0:52.0	That's not when you hear a lot.
0:53.2	I love New Year's. I love it. I don't understand people who don't like New Year's. Like, I really don't. I am usually in bed by 10. So, I don't know. I don't really like do the New Year. I think those two are, you're going to tell me more about this later. Yeah, I was going to say, I think those two are my favorites because they don't come with, like, people requirements.
1:12.4	Like, one involves a lot of candy and one involves a party. And, like, that's basically it.
1:19.3	My favorite holidays are, yes, Halloween and Thanksgiving and then Christmas because of the food.
1:25.1	Like, the food. I like the food holidays. Like, I don care about the 4th of July because history and also there's no real food.
1:31.9	Like who wants a hot dog?
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