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Two Demi-Gods Going For A Walk

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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss immigrant stories, royalty, close friendships, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Here We Lie by Paula Treick DeBoard and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. 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 After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun Winston’s War by Max Hastings The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole (out Feb 27) Gather the Daughters by Jennie Malamed (trigger warning: sexual assault, eating disorders) Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang Jade City by Fonda Lee The Chimes by Anna Smaill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.2

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New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations. This is episode 118 and we're recording on February 13th. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we're coming to you from Book Riot. My dog has a crate, y'all. No more jingling in the background. What will we do?

0:41.4

You're going to need to find a new bingo square. I don't know. She might start whining while she's in it.

0:45.3

So then the square will just be Amanda's dog whines instead of Amanda's dog walks around.

0:49.2

She's just laying quietly now. So we'll see how it goes.

1:11.3

My cat was like mounted a full on assault on one of her toys as I was getting ready for this. And you could hear her like glumphing around the apartment. And I was like, well, that could be interesting. But she's, I don't even know where she is now. She's settled down somewhere. It's just, you know, the, what's that law or like the worst thing that's going to happen? Murphy's Law. Yes, it's the Murphy's Law of podcasting. If I had babies, they would be crying now, just right now. They

1:14.9

would just like magically know that I needed a thing to do. True fact. Anyway, what you're reading?

1:19.9

I am reading after the flare by Dagi Bryce Ola Kootun, which is technically the second book in the

1:26.9

series and I haven't read the first one and and I'm, like, bad at series all over the place now. It used to be just romance, but now I'm apparently bad at all series. But I wanted to read it, and I could get a copy of this, like, from the publisher, so I just haven't read the first one yet. But anyway, it's really not at all

1:44.6

what I was expecting, which is probably because I haven't read the first one. But it takes place

1:50.3

in like a version of our world in which there's been a giant solar flare. And there's an astronaut

1:56.2

stuck on the International Space Station. And the flare has knocked out the, like, internet

2:02.8

and power structures of most of the sort of, you know, West, like America and the upper

2:09.7

latitudes.

2:10.9

So the only, like, around the equator, there are still countries with, you know, the infrastructure.

2:16.5

And so there, you, like, the story, the infrastructure. And so there you, like the story

2:19.6

opens in Nigeria with their space program. And they're the ones who are like working to rescue

2:24.6

the astronaut. And on top of it, there's like weird energy beings, like sabotaging the space air, like headquarters's weird there's weird things happening i'm not

2:38.0

sure what's happening right now but i'm really enjoying not knowing what's happening so yeah it's i'm

2:42.7

definitely going to go back and read the first one once i'm done with this one what about you i am just

2:47.7

still on winston's, which is the audiobook.

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