Ep. 127 Crushes and Controversy with Lupita Aquino
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today is Lupita Aquino, the reader behind successful bookstagram account Lupita Reads. Lupits is known for her incredible book recommendations and vibrant photos. Our conversation covers the evolving relationship between publishers and book influencers, activism in the book community, and the authors she finds crush-wrothy.
The Stacks Book Club selection for September is The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, we will discuss the book with Lupita Aquino on September 30th.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas. |
| 0:09.0 | Our guest today is avid reader and books to grammar Lupeta Aquino, better known as Lupeta Rees. |
| 0:16.2 | Today we talk about how Lupeta got into bookstagram, the controversy around American |
| 0:20.7 | dirt, and we gush about our author crushes. |
| 0:24.3 | As a reminder, everything we discuss on today's show can be found in the link in the show notes. |
| 0:29.5 | I wanted to take a quick moment to say thank you to our newest members of the Stacks Pack. Those are people who contribute to this show monthly through our Patreon page and in return earned perks like our virtual book club. |
| 0:41.0 | If you love this podcast and want to help ensure I can make a show week in and |
| 0:44.7 | week out, consider joining us at the Stax Pack by going to Patreon.com slash the Stax. |
| 0:51.9 | This week I'm saying an extra big thank you to Heather Wild, |
| 0:54.8 | Sarah's bookshelves, page B, Shinnade Starnes, Macy Morgan, Joyce Newstadt, |
| 1:01.3 | Carlita Beavers, Shara A, Jessica Root, |
| 1:05.0 | A, Alyssa Carnegie, Chris, and Mary Bull. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. |
| 1:10.0 | All right y'all, let's do it. |
| 1:12.0 | Time to talk to La Peter Reedes. |
| 1:14.0 | All right you guys I'm so excited. I'm here with your favorite book's programmer, Lapida Aquino. Lapida, welcome to the Stax. |
| 1:27.0 | Hi, I'm really, really freaking excited to be here. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm very excited. I know we're going to get a |
| 1:34.5 | bazillion book recommendations from you. So people at home, |
| 1:39.4 | it's all going to be in the show notes. |
| 1:41.0 | You just click that link. there will be a list of every |
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