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Book Riot - The Podcast

#201: Psychological Steamer Trunks

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about oxford commas, labor laws, ebook sales, a raft of adaptation news, and much more.    This episode is sponsored by: Caraval by Stephanie Gerber What It Takes by Shannon Stacey   Links discussed in this episode: Hero of the week: 11-year-old St Louis boy starts book club for black boys to see themselves in books. Oxford Comma decides court case Kerry Washington to adapt The Mothers  Girl in the Spider’s Web will be a total reboot w/ new actors Nnedi Okorafor says publisher whitewashed her cover Ebook sales continue to fall in UK Hachette partners w/ Wattpad to produce audiobooks Libro.fm - audiobook service for indie bookstores See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated,

0:05.0

like your head is full of Raspberry,

0:08.0

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0:15.0

Money never felt like Monzo.

0:18.0

UK residents, T, and worth talking

0:30.0

about in the world of books and reading.

0:32.0

This is episode 201. We're

0:33.7

recording on Thursday, March 16th. I'm Rebecca Shinsky here with Jeff O'Neill

0:37.4

and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Happy spring. It feels like

0:41.9

spring here today. It's it but sunny, which in Portland is it's basically July.

0:46.5

I am in Philadelphia visiting our co-worker and friend Jen and it is definitely winter outside.

0:54.0

You like that. You like full winter.

0:56.0

I do. I like a full winter, but it had been full spring in Richmond and then it got cold.

1:01.0

So I'm seasonally, I'm seasonally confused but it's okay yeah

1:04.1

it's all right and spring forward which doesn't treat you well it does not you know you lose

1:08.2

an hour of reading time you lose an hour of sleeping time I just don't know

1:11.8

where I am in time and space right now but it's all

1:15.1

you do enough we work together long enough that I do know this about you is the

1:19.4

daylight savings alterations that you don't your body doesn't like those.

1:23.2

You have a hard time with them.

1:25.0

It doesn't.

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