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Book Riot - The Podcast

#163: A Soft Spot for Barnes & Noble

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

News, News Commentary, Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk the best-selling books of the first half of 2016, the health of Barnes & Noble, celebrity literary philanthropy, and much more.  This week's episode is sponsored by: Casper (use offer code RIOT for $50 off) and The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a book ride podcast, weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

0:09.4

This episode 163 and recording on Thursday.

0:13.0

Tuesday.

0:15.0

Thursday, July 23.

0:17.0

That's like when you're extra enthused?

0:18.0

Yeah, it's like Dr. Seuss week, Tuesday.

0:21.0

I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm with Rebecca Shinskyinsky and we're coming to you from Book Ride.

0:24.0

Come.

0:25.0

Rebecca, how you doing?

0:26.0

I'm you know, very sucy right now.

0:28.0

I have like highlight or pink hair at the moment.

0:31.0

We've had a busy week. We're both a little shot already on

0:35.6

Yeah, a little bit. I kind of like it's pouring down rain here. I just want to make

0:41.4

coffee and curl up with a book and not like you're lovely but I don't

0:46.0

want to talk to anybody I understand I'm someone ergo you don't want to talk to

0:49.5

me right yeah Socrates proved that. Yes. So yeah, well, it's a rainy day here too. I've got my coffee.

0:56.7

Let's do our first sponsor. Casper, it's a perfect timing because we both want to go lay down on a mattress.

1:03.0

Yes.

1:04.0

Casper mattress is back they sponsored the show before, good sponsor.

1:09.0

So like I said before, solving one of those problems, like the internet is magic for a lot of reasons and also terrible

1:13.8

but one of the reasons it's magic is it's helping us solve these problems that we just

1:19.5

felt like we're part of our, especially if you are someone who buys mattresses.

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