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🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss historical fiction, quests, funny books, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy and Impossible Views of the World by Lucy Ives. 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 Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson Dud Avocado by Helen Dundy See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt Mountain of Light by Indu Sundaresan Tombs of Atuan by Ursula LeGuin Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn Four Souls by Louise Erdrich Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day) Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome Funny books flow chart from Slate Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden Servant of the Underworld (Obsidian & Blood series #1) by Aliette de Bodard (writing outside her own culture) Girl Up by Laura Bates Grit by Angela Duckworth 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.
0:34.9	This is episode 92 and we're recording on August 1st.
0:38.0	I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we're coming to you from Book Riot
0:41.5	and Jen's closet.
0:44.7	Seriously, guys, there's construction on my street and there has been for weeks and it's
0:49.0	unpredictable so there's no good time to record around it. So I am sitting in a chair
0:54.1	inside of my closet with my
0:56.9	mic in front of me on a stool and the door is like half closed. And this is what's happening.
1:03.0	And the cats are locked out. The cats are locked out of the bedroom. Like, I don't know. This is
1:07.6	life. This is podcast life if you don't have a recording space, which I don't. Would none of us do, really? So, you know, there's that. Welcome to the unglamorous. I record just like in my living room where my desk is. And so 99% of the time I'm like trying to prevent my dogs from walking around. The UPS guy is knocking.
1:28.2	Like it's just all very silly.
1:29.3	Yeah, no, I also record from my desk, typically speaking.
1:33.4	and I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, and, and, you know, hear the birds, but this perpetual construction, just construction forever,
1:46.2	is apparently a thing that's happening now. So, I don't know what to say. How dare you? How dare people across the street? Yeah. So what we're reading now, I'll just go ahead and whatever.
1:55.0	So I finally started when Dimple met Rishi by Sonia Menni, which has been everywhere,
2:01.1	which I love.
2:06.2	I love that it's been everywhere.
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