Hello and welcome to the Book Riot Podcast.

I did a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and we're talking about the world of books and reading.

Recording on February 18th, 2021, I'm Jeff O'Neill here with Rebecca Shinsky, who has been doing nothing

but victory lap after victory lap after victory lap after last week's trouncing of expectation.

I am not ashamed to say that I hung up from our recording on Friday afternoon,

immediately walked upstairs to Bob's office and was like let me tell you how

amazing I am. Was that before or after you put in the company slack how you

obliterated the the game? I can't remember.

What was the order of operations there?

I've lost...

I've lost track of them at this point.

And then on top of it I got a really nice email from a listener who shall remain anonymous who was like I would have voted for you in the

books basket thing it just seems so obvious to me that you were going to win that I didn't take the time to and now I'm

sorry so I really am feeling good about myself and I'm worried about the fact that you have a game ready for today.

This is a game I don don't know. I don't, why said an expectation of what I think is going to happen? I thought it was interesting and connects to a couple of things we've done before. I would not do well. This one I might do a little bit better than you just because I paid more attention to it, but we're not going to get it.

I'm just going to, yeah, let's just. You paid more attention historically to print runs, especially from an earlier earlier book turnet days.

Interesting that the numbers I was reflecting on this later,

licking my wounds and ruminating.

Interesting that the band doesn't seem to have changed a whole lot like okay there's where we get who was getting million print

runs in our baby blogging days were back in 2010 were there people getting million I mean it was

worth the end of Harry I guess we were doing

mockingbird stuff. Dan Brown.

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