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Book Riot - The Podcast

BONUS: WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. What is it about? Is it good? Why is selling faster than fresh-dug swamp mussels? Answers and more than a few questions in this episode. This episode is sponsored by: This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger Link discussed in this episode: The Dark History Behind the Year’s Bestselling Debut Novel 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 Bird's Eye Chicken Dippers.

0:05.0

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and that's fine.

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So wherever you dip your chicken dippers in,

0:13.2

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0:16.6

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0:20.0

then pick up some bird's eye chicken dippers

0:22.3

at a major supermarket today.

0:24.4

For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. All right. We're back with another special episode of the Book Ride Podcast. This one

0:38.8

we're calling Book Club Club, wherein we look at books that have been popular book club books, either just

0:49.6

organically in the world that get picked up or maybe in the future that get named by a certain

0:55.2

multi media conglomerate dominating celebrity book club figures I don't know who I'm talking about right now

1:01.8

I'm just putting it out.

1:03.0

Whoever do you mean? We'll talk about that on the regular show we're taping tomorrow that

1:06.8

will appear before you hear this one so I guess you'll know the thing I'm thinly

1:11.8

referring to. I'm still getting used to this cadence where we exist outside of time and space here on the bonus episode.

1:18.0

So and clearly the Book Club Book of the year maybe of the decade to this point, is where the Crobdads Sing by Delia Owens, which

1:28.3

has sold multiple million copies in print.

1:31.6

Who knows how many in e-books because we don't get any data? And who knows how many in audiobook because we don't get any data either? It just passed 52 weeks. It just passes one year anniversary and it's been on the New York Times

1:45.1

Best Seller list. I'm not sure did you see if it debuted on the New York Times

1:48.6

Best Seller list or Book Scan in the top 20? Oh I didn't go that far either. But over the last really six months, it's been the

1:56.5

number one best-selling hard-kiver fixture title on BookScan virtually every week,

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