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Book Riot - The Podcast

#168: The Biggest Book of the Year

Book Riot - The Podcast

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🗓️ 1 August 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about the impending release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the Man Booker longlist, and more.   This episode is sponsored by: EveryLibrary Maud's Line by Margaret Verble See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the Book Riot Podcast, weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

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This episode 168, we're recording on Thursday, July 28th.

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I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm from Rebecca Shinsky.

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We're coming to you from Book Riot.com.

0:49.4

Well, it's the column before the biggest book release of the year.

0:54.4

This, we're going to talk about it a minute.

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But it's for a pretty slow, you know, there's a slow part of the summer.

1:01.2

It's it, it's weird to get the biggest book of the year, like basically

1:06.8

August 1st, you know, July, July 31st, August 1st.

1:10.6

It's a little strange to have at this time of year and the only weirdly the only

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Anticedent I can think of was last year when we got Ghost of Watchmen and Gray in mid

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July. So if you're going to be the biggest book release of the year you're

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one of these really sort of extraordinary out-of-the-ordinary book. The new Harry Potter books

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