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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss books about artists, nature, boundaries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. 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 The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman and Who is Maude Dixon by Alexandra Andrews (rec’d by Amanda) Real Life by Brandon Taylor and In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (rec’d by Elizabeth) Books Discussed The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (cw: slavery & related violence, complications in pregnancy, rape) Shepherd by Catherine Jinks (tw: bad things happening to animals) Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (cw: discussion of suicide, child abuse, and rape; on-page drug use) Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble (tw: suicide, harm to animals) Once Upon A River by Bonnie Jo Campbell (cw: rape, addiction, violence against women & children) Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab Alyssa Cole’s How To Find A Princess and A Prince on Paper Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel The Archivist Wasp Saga by Nicole Kornher-Stace What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt The Great Man by Kate Christensen The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling Everyday Ubuntu by Mungi Ngomane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Alive in every drop. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:45.8

This is episode 314, and we are recording on January 18th.

0:50.8

I'm Jen Northington.

0:51.7

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

0:56.5

And Amanda, I already have a takeback. Okay. So we talked on our like year end, year and preview show about I was going to steal the like easy and hard stacks from Tuki in the sentence. Yeah. But actually I figured out it's not easy and hard. It's quick and slow for me. Like, because some books are hard, but I read them really fast. And some books are like theoretically easy, but I read them really slow. And vice versa. Like it's not consistent for me. So I was like, oh, okay. So that I just, you know, it's sort of a takeback.

1:29.1

I think same. I think same. Right. I've been, like, I've been reading Ron Chernow's biography

1:34.8

of Ulysses S. Grant for legitimately like a year, like since the day after the Biden inauguration is

1:41.1

when I picked that up because they have a lot of similarities in my opinion.

2:02.7

And I just, you know, pick it up, put it down. Pick it up. But it's a long. That's definitely a long. Yeah, but it's not hard, right? Like it's not, no, none of it. I mean, that's why everybody loves him as a historian, right? Because it's all very accessible and easy. Yeah. Yeah. So the more I thought about it, the more I was like, oh, these are different stacks for me.

2:04.5

So that's my update.

2:06.5

How about you when you take packs?

2:09.7

Not so far.

2:12.8

I also don't remember what I said.

2:15.0

Oh, well, that'll do it. That'll do it.

2:16.4

Which is pretty much on brand for me.

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