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Book Riot - The Podcast

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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about recent reading, proceed to debate what constitutes historical fiction, wish for the failure of the efforts of some politicians, anticipate Janelle Monae’s short story collection, and much more. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Texas Governor Cancels Book Event Examining History Janelle Monae debut short fiction Andy Serkis is recording LOTR audiobooks See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Book Right Podcast. This is a weekly news and talk show about

0:06.4

what's new, cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

0:09.6

Recording on Thursday, July 8th, 2021.

0:13.0

I'm Jeff O'Neill here with Rebecca Shinsky.

0:15.0

We were off last week for holidays.

0:19.0

We're back.

0:20.0

We're in the summer doldrums here

0:22.0

when it comes to the world the books I'm

0:23.9

meaning I would say. We totally are. It's it was it worked out nicely for

0:29.8

everyone that we didn't have to record a news show last week because there wasn't really much news.

0:34.8

No, no.

0:36.5

So we're back and we're kind of getting through the summer.

0:39.6

We're between the summer releases, waiting on the fall the epramuala deluge of the fall we I think we talked

0:48.1

about in our summer preview draft the absolute schasborg that will be spread out before us on the table

0:56.5

when it comes to fall books. Have you read anything interesting? Well, actually, let's do a sponsor

1:00.2

break and maybe we'll do a little recent reading while we're trying to gin up

1:02.7

something to talk about here for a few minutes but first word from our sponsors.

1:07.0

Today's episode is brought to you by Harper Prennial, an imprint of Harper Collins publishers.

1:14.8

If you're in the mood for a hilarious romp through the space time continuum, which I'm going to assume that you are,

1:21.2

Kelly Cutron would say you should pick up the memo by Rachel Dodes and

1:25.1

Lauren Meckling. Now if you could rewrite your life story, would you? That is the

1:31.9

question at the heart of this charming and propulsive debut novel about

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