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Toxic Friendships, Maybe Wrapped Up in Murder

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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss vacation reads for dads, toxic friendships, disabled characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR, A Nice Day for a Cowboy Wedding by Nicole Helm, and Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep. 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.   Feedback Attack of the Giant Baby and Other Stories by Kit Reed The Best of Robert Bloch Richard Matheson Books Discussed The Tangled Tree by David Quammen The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison Daughters of the Storm (Blood & Gold #1) by Kim Wilkins Swords & Spaceships newsletter and Goodreads shelf Shark Drunk by Morten A Stroksnes So Anyway by John Cleese The Fever by Megan Abbott Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (TW: extreme violence of basically every imaginable kind) Rosewater by Tade Thompson The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby (rec’d by Susie D) Friend With Benefits Zone by Laura Brown Romances with disabled heroines: https://frolic.media/heroines-with-disabilities-six-romance-recs/ Death Below Stairs by Jennifer AshleyJenn Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (TW: graphic harm to children) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:23.3

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0:30.4

This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot's new subscription service offering tailored book recommendations for readers of all stripes.

0:39.5

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0:44.7

reading preferences and what you're looking for and sit back while your bibliologist handpicks

0:49.5

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0:56.7

so there's an option for every budget. Visit mytbr.co slash treat your shelf to sign up today.

1:04.0

That's mytbr.com slash treat your shelf.

1:09.0

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

1:13.6

This is episode 151, and we are recording on October 2nd.

1:18.0

I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.

1:23.0

Hello.

1:23.8

Every time I talk about TBR, I want to do the whole like, treat yourself sketch bit from Parks and Rec.

1:32.0

It's like a real struggle to say, first of all, to say treat yourself,

1:35.5

and then second of all, not to like do it in full red a voice.

1:40.7

Or what is that?

1:41.8

There's an episode where they do treat yourself and what's his name? Adam is the actor's name. Oh my gosh. Ben. Thank you. I was like, how could I not remember Leslie's husband? And Ben goes out and buys that like full Batman costume? Yes, the Batman costume. I am. I am going to treat myself. It's so good. It's so good. Comedy gold, y'all.

2:03.1

It is. Amanda, I'm so excited to ask you what you're reading. So in the agenda, I put nothing,

2:11.3

comma, fight me. Because that's, I'm just not reading anything. By some weird, like, fate, twist of fate, I finished all of the books I was reading, like, at once.

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