ICYMI - TikTok Is Making People … Read … Books?
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison crack open some romance novels and talk about BookTok, the realm of TikTok where readers can find hyper-personal recommendations and niche memes about the horny books everybody is reading. They discuss how TikTok has caused some books to reappear on the New York Times bestseller list, Rachelle’s love of The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, and why the top priority when it comes to reading is fun.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | I read a whole book today. |
| 0:02.7 | Whole book in one day. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm a scholar. |
| 0:05.3 | She's learned. |
| 0:06.2 | Was the alien point yet? |
| 0:07.4 | Shut up. |
| 0:08.1 | Shut up. |
| 0:09.3 | She is a learned woman. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:14.7 | And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:16.2 | And you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:18.2 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.5 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. Today we're |
| 0:22.4 | actually going analog and talking about books. So Madison, what are you reading right now? |
| 0:27.8 | Okay, not to brag, but I have read at least 12 books. In your life? Yeah. Impressive. Thank you. |
| 0:32.4 | What am I reading right now? Honestly, I have been lugging around the same copy of trust |
| 0:36.6 | exercise for years now. Madison. And I'm making another go. Madison, I have been lugging around the same copy of trust exercise for years now. |
| 0:38.9 | Madison. And I'm making another go. Madison, I'm freeing you. Just don't read it. |
| 0:42.4 | But here's the thing. One, widely critically acclaimed by lots of people I respect. Two, a subject |
| 0:49.1 | material just like, it's like a flop house teen theater high school auto fiction stitch, like made for me. |
| 1:01.2 | I understand that. |
| 1:03.0 | And no disrespect to Susan Choi. |
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