#232: Slightly Ridiculous

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🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca sink their teeth into the new VIDA numbers, quickly mention the 2017 Man Booker Prize announcement, roll around in some book sales data, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater Libby The Lost Causes by Etting & Schwartz Links discussed in this episode: Win 500 Bucks to spend at the bookstore of your choice! George Saunders wins 2017 Man Booker Prize 2016 VIDA count NYC libraries to forgive all children’s fines Riz Ahmed as Hamlet for Netflix!? Mississippi school district pulls TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD from curriculum because it offends peopleFlorida school district bans all books with “profanity, cursing, or inappropriate subject matter” Kickstarter for a queer feminist bookstore in Mississippi Library of Congress begins Librarians in Residence pilot program See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by us at Book Riot. We are giving away a $500. That's right, $500 gift card to the bookstore of your choice. This giveaway is open internationally through November 26th so you have a
0:15.8	while to enter but why would you wait because we're talking about 500 bones to buy books?
0:21.2	Go to book Riot.com
0:22.6	slash bookstore giveaway, all one word, to enter. That's
0:26.2	Book Riot.com slash bookstore giveaway
0:28.9	to enter to win a $500 gift card to the bookstore of your choice.
0:33.0	This is the Book Riot Podcast, weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking
0:41.7	about in the world of books and reading.
0:43.2	This is episode 232.
0:45.1	We're recording on Thursday, October 19th.
0:47.7	I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky.
0:50.1	We're coming to you from Book Riot.
0:52.1	Come. Hello.com.
0:53.0	Hello.
0:55.0	Actually a lot of news this week.
0:57.0	But I have to say the thing I'm most excited to talk about,
1:00.0	oh, you know what I just realized?
1:02.0	Okay, good, you put it in there never mind never
1:03.2	I had something I was gonna make sure it was in there and I anyway I didn't I was looking at the
1:08.8	agenda before and I just skimmed over to the VITA count I was like wait do we put
1:11.9	in there yes there okay perfect wouldn't miss the VITA count. I was like, wait, do we put in there? Yeah, it's there, okay, perfect.
1:13.2	Oh yeah, wouldn't miss the VITA count. Because I think that's one of the things that we always
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