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🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss travel audiobooks, under-the-radar magical realism, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Amazon Kindle and Not A Sound by Heather Gudenkauf. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes 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 Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck, narrated by Gary Sinise Blue Highways by William Least-Heat Moon Anne of the Island by LM Montgomery Mercury by Hope Larson Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh True Crime Addict by James Renner (rec’d by Stephanie) Comics About Gaming post In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang The Amulet Series by Kazu Kibuishi (The Stonekeeper #1) My Life With BOB by Pamela Paul Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:35.8	This is episode 83 and we are recording on May 30th.
0:39.2	I'm Jed Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:43.8	Howdy-duty. Hello, happy day after Memorial Day. Oh, yes. Did you have an excellent
0:49.7	long weekend? I did. I sat on the couch and I watched a lot of ridiculous TV. And I ate a lot of food. And it was glorious.
1:03.1	Great. What about you? Same. The boy's father took them off to a Memorial Day party. And so my friend Nikki came over
1:12.8	and we, we made tacos and drank a lot of beer and got really tipsy and then got on Tinder,
1:17.3	which is always an adventure. Oh boy. We call it drunk tindering, which is where we get really
1:22.3	drunk and then we sit down and judge people. And it's like horrible.
1:31.4	It's horrible and it's just, but it's fun.
1:32.8	It's like a lot of fun.
1:34.8	Until the next day when there are consequences.
1:38.4	Like, oh, I'm matched with like 40 people that I don't remember talking to.
1:39.5	This is not good.
1:42.3	And then I have to very nicely be like, no, I'm sorry.
1:43.7	Oh, yeah. So that's my drunk tender story. And now all of you know that I do that. Because it's fun. I don't care. So what are you reading, Jen? Well, what happened was I sat on my couch and watched a lot of ridiculous TV. I got sucked into black sales. And, like, I had all of these plans for reading, but then I was watching pirates do bad things to each other.
2:05.4	And I was like, books, what are those?
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