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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

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about book sales, Amazon’s new book club, the bookstore of the year, recent reading, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Congrats to The Raven! The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson Amazon starts monthly book club Post-Traumatic by Chantal Johnson Translating Myself & Other by Jhumpa Lahiri Trillions by Robin Wigglesworth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Book Right Podcast, it's weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and

0:06.2

we're talking about the world of books and reading.

0:08.3

Recording on Thursday, May 26, 20, 22.

0:11.9

I'm Jeff O'Neill here with Rebecca Shinsky. We are on the on the edge of

0:15.9

summer as as the song says. Memorial Day coming out which by all accounts is the

0:20.8

official beginning of summer. It's 64 and rainy here today

0:24.4

in Portland. We didn't get much of a spring. It's going to rain all weekend but

0:27.8

next week it's going to be 8384. It's officially summertime Rebecca.

0:31.3

It's probably it's already felt like summer in there in Virginia.

0:33.4

Yeah we've had some blips we've had some blips of summer we are in 60 degrees and rainy which is like

0:39.6

appropriate for where I am spiritually today.

0:43.0

But I would love to feel like summer on the inside.

0:46.0

Yeah.

0:47.0

And the book sale season,

0:50.0

we're all, basically, by next Tuesday Tuesday most of the big summer books will have been out

0:56.0

I talked about book lovers by Emily Henry topping the trade paper back list this

1:01.0

last week I want to talk it about some more. I want to do some

1:04.5

book sale stuff. So interesting stuff going on. But you know before we get that

1:08.3

got listener feedback, nothing is so short, but let's do our first sponsor break and we'll come back real quick.

1:16.0

Today's episode is brought to you by Flat Iron Books, publisher of the Cautious Travelers Guide to the wastelands by Sarah Brooks.

1:24.4

So this one is really interesting.

1:26.3

It's a little creepy.

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