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Book Riot - The Podcast

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

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca get Rebecca up to speed on Nobel nuttiness and Circe mysteries, try to digest huge adaptation news, puzzle out another Amazon dust-up, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio Circe by Madeline Miller Book Riot's Mystery Giveaway Links discussed in this episode: King of Sweden steps in to break Nobel deadlock Amazon temporarily de-lists new Cassandra Clare book over confusion about self-publishing venture Amazon to produce $1 Billion Adaptation of The Three-Body Problem 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 is
0:04.0	the Book Riot Podcast, weekly news and talk show about what's new,
0:07.0	cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.
0:09.0	This episode 256, we're recording on Thursday, April 12th.
0:14.0	I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky.
0:15.0	We're coming to you from Book Riot.
0:18.0	com.
0:19.0	Rebecca, you had to travel last week
0:21.0	and you missed, you missed,
0:22.0	craziness, weird craziness
0:25.0	so much I missed so much I was in the airport like casually kind of looking at
0:29.4	Twitter but I wasn't on our company slack I wasn't really paying attention to the internet so I knew enough to know like
0:35.8	things are happening but I didn't know really what the things were and I
0:40.0	got to be honest I haven't even completely caught no we'll catch up we'll catch up
0:43.2	today through through the through the magical follow-up jazz hands sparkly rainbow we
0:49.5	will catch you up with well you know I was trying to do that the more you know rainbow from
0:53.7	NBC doesn't really work on an audio only format so luckily known was
0:58.5	Instagraming me or you know it was snap facing me while I was doing that but sometime let me know and I will do
1:05.2	that hand gesture for you in person and you can laugh hysterically I cannot wait
1:09.2	at me Michelle will certainly request it as soon as she hears the show that I performed that for her.
1:14.3	Anyway, so what it was funny I was talking to our mutual friend and Jeremy who works on
1:20.0	Ante with us about both of these stories yesterday, the Nobel one and the Circe pricing one.
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