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

Coming to you from Book Riot.com.

Today is Thursday, June 17, 2021.

And Rebecca, it's summer time, summer reading

is in full effect. It's going to be hot here

We got one of the big news one of the big recurring news drops of the year came out Friday afternoon one o'clock eastern on a Friday which I'll never understand why you

would do this to announce the Pulitzer Prizes. Theoretically these are about

media things and you would know that's like when the White House does their news dump

I've seen the West Wing we all know this at this point

Monday Tuesday morning I don't know why don't we anyway that's another we can talk about that a little bit so we've got that

we've got some

news, didn't expect it to be that interesting of a week, but there's kind of some stuff

going on here. Yeah, yeah, not yet in like the dog days of summer where nothing

is happening. Nothing is happening, nothing has happened at all, but we're to get all to that in a minute, but first we're going to do our first sponsor break.

Today's episode is brought to you by Random House, publishers of Wild Ground by Emily Usher. is a whose all-consuming relationship is tested by the forces of class, prejudice, and addiction in a small English town.

From the beginning it has always been Neif in her beautiful troubled mother,

Chrissy. When they move to a small town to follow Chrissy's older boyfriend, it's a chance to start over.

And on the first day in their new home, she meets Danny in the two form of friendship that gives way to the

slow burn of romance as they grow up, desperate to escape the confines of their world and the

forces that hold their families hostage, like substance abuse, poverty, and racism.

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