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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News, Books, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about white people being upset at Black-owned bookstores for not getting them their anti-racist books fast enough (this is not a joke), how you should NOT repeat NOT microwave your library books, how Sherlock Holmes having feelings is a apparently a matter that needs adjudication, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Book Riot’s personalized reading recommendation service, which now has gifting! Discussed in this episode: NBCC update Macmillan CEO steps back from day to day operations Amazon’s Best Books of the Year so far list Be patient with bookstores Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate sue’s Netflix for giving Sherlock Holmes too many feelings GRRM reports “steady progress” on next GoT book See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Book Right Podcast, Podcast. It's Weekly News and Talk Show about what's new, cool and worth talking
0:08.0	about in the world of books and reading. Today is Thursday, June 25th, 2039.
0:15.8	I would believe you.
0:19.2	Are we doing a show next week?
0:20.5	I don't remember.
0:22.0	The fourth is on a son Saturday I think we do record
0:26.1	I think we are and there'll be one yeah I can't remember well you'll know
0:30.2	listeners when it either does or it doesn't show up in your feet on that Monday.
0:36.2	It was a slow newsweek and then it wasn't and then it was and then it wasn't.
0:39.1	So kind of a back and forth news going on.
0:42.1	All over the map, really.
0:43.6	Yeah, right?
0:45.6	I guess on the COVID side, we've got one story.
0:50.6	Actually, do we have any story?
0:51.7	We don't actually have any COVID-related today I had one I just was going to throw in there because like I don't want to add another one except this one was both kind of funny and a PSA
1:01.4	someone I think Jamie linked it in our today in books newsletter last night about people
1:06.6	now that some libraries are reopening for a grab and go service they're getting
1:10.6	books they're worried about COVID being all up in their Grisham novels or whatever they got going on and they're putting them in the microwave.
1:16.2	Don't microwave your books, which is not something you should do. No.
1:21.6	Microwave food. Really that's it. I, microwave food.
1:23.0	Really, that's it.
1:24.0	I'm not sure there's anything else you should microwave.
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