This is the Book Riot Podcast, a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and

worth talking about in the world of books and reading. This is episode 221.

We're recording on Saturday, August 5th, 2017. I'm

Rebecca Shinsky. I'm here with Jeff O'Neill. I'm coming to you from Book Riot.com.

Saturday morning recording this week for scheduling but also it was so

freaking hot here in Portland. Man Portland! It was broasting so and I don't have air

conditioning and you can't run a fan right in your

Torso while you're doing a podcast so blah blah blah blah. Yada yada yada yada

Here we are like is that like how Iron Man has that little thing in his chest you just install a

the Arc Reactor I wish I had an Arc Reactor just to keep myself cool just an AC that

would be lovely yeah it's it's actually been nice in Richmond I don't know what

happened like we swapped climates and yeah it's not exactly what I'm looking for when we came

11 snow days and it was 104 on Wednesday the forecast was for 109 which is like

eye-poppingly that is it's just alarming yeah it's bad anyway everyone likes to hear

how hot it was in the city they don't live in

well you know that's what they could that's what people come for I've had a nice Saturday

morning already I was running late for our podcast for donut related reasons

which I knew you and our listeners are sympathetic too so

did that that's cool let's get into the show you had this as follow-up and I didn't know if we talked about

before James Comi has a book deal have we

talked about something related to this before?

We talked about the fact that he was people like shopping around a book.

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