Hot Book Summer

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It's almost summer, and whether you're at a beach, at a park, or at home, it's a great time to get lost in a book. Sam is joined by Barrie Hardymon, senior editor of NPR's Weekend Edition, and Traci Thomas, host of the podcast The Stacks. They give advice on how to get back into the habit of reading and recommend a few great summer reads: Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi, How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith, Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins and Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor. They also play a special edition of "Who Said That?"

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty. This week, put to read this summer.
0:06.0	Alright, let's start the show.
0:11.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR. I'm Sam Sanders.
0:14.0	In this episode, we are celebrating the holiday weekend with books.
0:19.0	You know, a lot of folks I know, they spent this last year reading a lot.
0:24.0	But some other folks, like me, read a lot less. It was harder to focus.
0:30.0	Our usual routines around reading might have been disrupted.
0:33.0	And things in general were just more difficult.
0:36.0	In the before times, I traveled a lot.
0:39.0	And that was where I did most of my reading.
0:42.0	I also love to read at bars. And that has obviously been out of the question.
0:46.0	But now that we are getting over the pandemic, and it's summer book season and summer travel season,
0:52.0	I want to dive back in and listeners, maybe you do as well.
0:56.0	So to offer some book recommendations for this holiday weekend and beyond,
1:01.0	I brought together in one place my two favorite bookworms to get us pumped for summer reading.
1:07.0	Tell folks who you are.
1:08.0	Who goes first? I'll go first.
1:10.0	You go first.
1:11.0	Okay.
1:12.0	Okay, my name is Tracy Thomas and I'm the host of the stacks, which is a podcast all about books and reading.
1:17.0	And my name is Barry Hardiman and I'm a fan of the stacks. And I am also an editor at MPR.
1:23.0	I'm the book's editor at Weekend Edition. And I'm a reader.
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