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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

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca discuss some listener feedback, some bookseller discontent with Bookshop, Stephanie Meyer selling 1 million books in a week, and more. This episode is sponsored by: Flatiron Books, publishers of Court of Lions by Somaiya Daud His & Hers by Alice Feeney Read or Dead, Book Riot’s mystery/thriller podcast! Book Riot’s TBR Discussed in this episode: HOLY CATS Midnight Sun sells 1 million copies in first week Follow-up: SC librarian who was pushed out over Drag Queen Story Hour getting a settlement Eyeballs emoji for the ABA’s undisclosed investment in Bookshop LA Times Festival of the Book going online: Merriam-Webster has a podcast Running items: is Elizabeth Moss OK? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh, welcome back to the Book Ryan Podcast.

0:05.0

We talked about book stuff.

0:10.0

I'm so delighted every week not knowing what the like sort of falsely excited

0:15.8

introduction is going to be like everything's great.

0:18.6

This one is supposed to be like you you're in on a secret here at the book

0:23.0

grab podcast yeah you know you you're listening you know what's up you know that we

0:27.4

talk about books and reading and cool stuff around books and reading if it's not

0:31.1

cool it could be new and if it's not cool or new it also could be

0:33.8

interesting oral three today is August 13th

0:38.8

2020

0:40.0

winding on summer I'm gonna be out next week sitting around some other house not doing things

0:46.4

but I am very much looking forward to it. I am mustering whatever is to be mustered today so we'll see

0:54.4

How it happens we're to start with some listener emails. We're going to tomorrow we're recording our favorite reads

1:00.5

of the summer that's not coming out for a little while, but I've got some

1:04.0

emails from people, but you can still emails for sure, but we're not going to make it into the

1:07.8

show or anything else for the show we're actually recording because we're going to do that

1:10.1

tomorrow. Thank you. got some interesting responses there. Really, you know, as we suggested,

1:16.4

really no big book of the summer. There's some things that have sold as we'll talk about a new one that's

1:20.9

sold especially well, but none of those made those onto the list

1:24.6

interesting mix of backlist and idiosyncratic mentions from our listeners speaking

1:31.4

of idiosyncratic listeners mentions we'll get to that in a minute, but first, let's take care of a sponsor.

1:37.0

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