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Ever walked by a shelf in your local bookstore full of books wrapped in brown paper? Those are blind dates with books where you buy a book without knowing the title, the cover, the author, or anything, and it's a great way to discover new books you might never have picked up for yourself. We're giving away five blind dates with books. I am going to go to my local indie in Richmond called Chapsui and pick five at random off their shelves to mail to five random winners. To enter to win your own blind date

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

This is episode 205, and we are recording on October 29th. I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot. It's almost Halloween. I carved pumpkins last night. That's great. I have not done that. And the boys yesterday when we were coming home from soccer practice were like, Mom, when are we going to do pumpkins? And I was like, oh, no. I just, I don't feel like it. So we're not going to do that this year. You are free to draw a pumpkin or some such. I just,

I just don't feel like it. That's terrible. I've never used one of those like patterns before, and I used one for the first time last night. And it, I did turn out really good. I was just like, oh, this is interesting. I've never, I've never done that before. So. It's it, I always get really frustrated with how hard, this maybe it's just because my knives aren't good, but like how hard it is to carve in a two of pumpkin. Like, they're thick. Okay. So. Tell me your secrets. Here's the thing. Yes. Here's the thing. You know those really

stupid little pumpkin carving sets that have like the tiny little serrated knives. Mm-hmm.

They actually work super well. Like they make it so, I know, I know. I knew you were going to hate that. But it's true. It's true. They actually work super well. Like it's the easiest thing in the world. And I'm not just saying this as a grownup. We have, I think Roger must have bought it like six million years ago. But he had this book of patterns that came with like, you know, the little carving tools. And we used it with his four-year-old

nephew and six-year- carving tools. And we used it

with his four-year-old nephew and six-year-old niece. And they carved amazing pumpkins. It was totally

fine. And like, I also think they're easy to use. So I hate to break it to you. My like Instagram

dad spirit that lives within me wants to just use a jigsaw to do it.

But I feel like that would be terrible.

Overkill.

Overkill.

Like, I've got one.

Why would I just see that?

Anyway, no one let me do that.

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