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Book Riot - The Podcast

The Tipping Point Was a Tipping Point

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the passing of David McCullough, who holds the Dad Book crown, seeing the Colleen Hoover phenomenon in the wild, rubber-neck the PRH/S&S trial, and much 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 Is this the Colleen Hoover profile we have been looking for? Day Five of the Penguin Random House/S&S Trial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the Book Cry Podcast.

0:03.0

It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new cool and worth talking about the world books and reading.

0:07.0

Today is Thursday, August 11, 20, 22.

0:10.0

I'm Jeff O'Neill here with the Brechinsky as always, well as most of the time when I'm not on PTO or she is or we just don't want to record or do something else

0:19.0

Coming to you from bookriot.com we're in the dog days I'd say we're all I'm asked me with the dog days of summer where and I said well I think it's

0:26.7

late summer where it's hot and it feels like things have gone just a little too long, right?

0:34.3

Is that what the dog days are?

0:36.3

That's my understanding of it, definitely my experience of it.

0:40.2

My dog spends these days just like sprawled out with as much surface area of his body as

0:46.2

possible on the coldest parts of the floor like just absorb that cool however you can and that's I'm feeling that in my soul.

0:55.0

Yeah, so we're a bit in the slow news part of the year except not really there's we've got a lot of

1:02.2

interesting things to talk about.

1:05.3

I guess before we get into it, some front matter.

1:08.4

Most recent Patreon episode was my solo reading lives. You can hear me talk about tents. A lot of talk about tents more than

1:15.8

you would think. I know that's the same strange. And then also coming up next week we're

1:20.8

going to cord right after this show we'll go on the

1:22.7

patron feed next week we're doing a diet version of adaptation nation I didn't do the

1:27.4

full coverage for this I didn't do the okay thing I don't know if you did but I

1:30.7

read it and watch it and thought about it but I didn't go read the stuff like we do for adaptation nation a little bit of a less formal version of me and yet it's the most serious book about you could probably read in a lot of ways.

1:44.0

Remind me, had you both read and seen this before?

1:46.7

I had read it, but I read it when it was, I think, fresh out in

1:50.0

paperback, so probably 2006-ishish I had not seen the film okay that was new so that's

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