Adapted Screenplay Nominees, Big 5 Really Just as Big, NBCC Award Finalists, and more

Book Riot - The Podcast

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Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca helpfully wade into the Adapted Screenplay Discourse, question framing 2023 as anything other than dominance for the Big 5, peruse the National Book Critics Circle Award nominees, and more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. Discussed in this episode: Sign up for Better Living Through Books and the BR Pod newsletter First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Kansas introduces anti-book ban bill Independent publishers chip away at Big Five’s hold on bestseller lists NBCC awards finalists Oscar nominees are out and apparently Barbie is an adaptation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is the book grab podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:33.0	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:35.0	And today we're talking about Rebecca going into Darkest Swamp,
0:41.0	kayak paddle, and she's going to do the the yeoman's work of
0:46.0	finally figuring out whether or not a tween could survive in a swamp by themselves and find out if Delia Owens was full of
0:55.3	crap or not. Was this historical fiction? Was this a guide to life or was this all
1:00.2	you know this was all disinformation about the survivability of bogs and other kinds of messy
1:06.4	places.
1:07.4	The Manic Pixi Swamp Girls Guide to Life.
1:09.8	That's right.
1:10.8	That's right.
1:11.8	Really something I'm unprepared for, Yes, as I was texting you last night I'm doing
1:16.4	some swamp kayaking this coming week on a trip I'm taking a little farther south.
1:21.4	You have dubbed me the Kayak Dixie Swamp Girl. And yeah I think maybe I will
1:27.9	pitch this to the New Yorker like I tried to live like Delia Owens's main
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