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This is 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. This is episode 240 recording on Thursday December 14th. I'm Jeff O'Neill

I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from Book Riot.com. It's a look look back this week I know I can't believe we're

already looking back the like this end of the year time has really snuck up on me

I was um trying to think of the stories from the year and as it always happens I think happens every year

I'm like you know nothing really sticks out and then once I saw the story starting to piling up

in the agenda I was like oh my gosh, it was a nut here.

Yeah, I had a really fun time yesterday.

I had like 900 tabs open, scrolling backwards through our agenda from the last year

and opening stories and being like do we care enough

about this one we care enough about this other one but I think this is a pretty good

summary of of what happened here in 2017. Yeah a lot of turkeys. It's like Thanksgiving. Yeah there are so many

turkeys and I'm not in the mood to part in any of them. No I guess sometimes we

we started this with kind of an overview like where the state of the union of the book world right now

on the top level trend stuff I feel like not I guess that's what I was thinking is like not much really changed this year we We didn't get a lot of big

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