You are listening to the Book Riot Podcast. It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

We are recording on Thursday, June 16th. I'm Rebecca Shinsky. Jeff is out on vacation this week, and I'm here with our managing editor, Vanessa Diaz.

Hi, I'll do my best to do a weird transitions and metaphors and fill in through the Jeff.

Yeah, we got to come up with some agricultural references.

Yes.

Make some puns. I'm sure we'll do it proud. I know I was promising to do some

agricultural jokes on one of our all hands calls yesterday and I don't I don't think I got any single opportunity so I

should have like prepared should have come prepared with some just gonna write down

yeah next time yeah just be loaded be ready.

Be loaded be ready is going on my list of t-shirt ideas that Rebecca knows about.

Loaded with like a barn full of bad ideas. There we go. Anyway, thank you all for joining us this week. It is, you know, we're feeling like we're in full swing summer. Book World News has slowed down a little bit, but of course still plenty of things to talk about.

And before we get into the news of the week, we want to just jump into our first sponsor. We'll be right back.

This episode is sponsored by Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adigami.

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