Giovanni's Room - February Book Club
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Hi all! Thanks for joining us. This week is our inaugural book club episode! As they mentioned last episode, Frank and Rhonda picked Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin off the NYPL's 125 Books We Love list to read and discuss. We hope you had the chance to read along too. So without further ado - click "play" and be transported to 1950s Paris...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the librarians in the New York Public Libraries |
| 0:17.3 | podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I am Frank. And I'm Rhonda. |
| 0:24.3 | There she is. Rhonda's here. And here I am. Here we are on our second episode together. |
| 0:31.0 | We got some nice comments. That's what I was going to say. We got some really nice comments. |
| 0:35.9 | About the reading public seems to have embraced you with open arms. And I'm so happy. I looked at some of the comments this morning, which is kind of dangerous, because I was like, I don't know what I'm going to see. But it was. It's true. I know. It was really nice. People are very receptive, which is, it kind of puts the pressure on now. |
| 0:55.4 | Just don't get too cocky, all right? |
| 0:56.0 | Okay. |
| 0:58.0 | Just remember who's the boss here. |
| 0:58.4 | Okay. |
| 0:59.0 | It's not me. All right, all right. |
| 0:59.8 | Just remember who's the boss. |
| 1:00.8 | Second episode, everybody. |
| 1:01.8 | Look at how he's acting. |
| 1:02.6 | We're already internal fighting. |
| 1:05.0 | There's already problems behind the scenes with this podcast. |
| 1:08.4 | But today is the day that, first of all, how are you? I am great. Yes. Good. Basking in the glow of all those wonderful comments. Yeah, it's true. It's wonderful. So hopefully we will keep our momentum going. I was going to say, of course, like, I feel tired because I didn't sleep that well last night, which is not |
| 1:27.5 | often. But it was one of those like freddie, like fretting. I was fretting about things. |
| 1:32.8 | And then I remember, speaking of comments, you never know what you could get. I once got a comment |
| 1:36.9 | about me that said, oh, Frank, stop whining. I know because I was whining about some, |
| 1:44.9 | not understanding some book, and then I thought I was going to come and be like, I'm tired, Ron, I'm tired. And then I was like, you're whining. So I was like, all right. No, you just. I'm not going to whine, but or as much. As much. I reserve the right to whine a little bit. I think it's okay, but just a little bit. |
| 1:42.7 | We got to keep a cap on it, right? as much. I reserve the right to whine a little bit. I think it's okay, but just a little bit. |
| 2:02.2 | We got to keep a cap on it, right? That was subtle. I don't know if I enjoy being put in my place |
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