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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

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk Obama declaring once and for all (?) that he does read the books he says he does. Also, a discussion of the realities of author finances along with structural problems with Goodreads. 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! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and bookish professionals? Subscribe to The Deep Dive, a biweekly newsletter featuring stories to inform and inspire readers, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: First Edition! First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack. The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Hasan Minhaj Asks Barack Obama Who Really Curates His End-of-Year Lists: ‘Look Me in the Eyes and Be Honest’ How to Lose a Third of a Million Dollars Without Really Trying How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published The Guest by Emma Cline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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This is the book grant podcast. It's weekly news and talk show about its new, cool, and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

0:37.0

Today is Thursday, June 29, 2023. I'm Jeff O'Neill here with Rebecca Shinsky on the cusp of the 4th of July.

0:45.0

Rebecca has gone to visit Saints to cure her maladies and you can tell by her voice that she's been cured.

0:51.0

Yeah, I am not sure that that's

0:55.0

she's been cured. Yeah I am not sure that that's exactly the mythology of the

0:57.2

Camino but I did go on a very long hike my voice got a little bit better every day and by the end of it in

1:05.9

true form I was singing Bruno Mars in the middle of Santiago Square.

1:12.0

Well they do like like Don Quixote before you people do weird things in

1:16.1

Spain when they've been walking around for a while they start seeing things they start

1:21.2

hallucinating. silking at windmills, vibing to Mars, it's all, it's all, it's all,

1:26.7

it's all, no, there's nothing new under. Yes, it is, it is true. I was, I have, you know,

1:31.8

never been as sweaty in my life as I was I have you know never been as sweaty in my life as I was and there was a moment at our like last lunch on the last day when we were like three kilometers from San Diego that the backstreet boys I want it that way came on and like

1:47.1

you know at the little restaurant we were at and there was just this whole

1:49.9

spontaneous karaoke moment with a bunch of strangers.

1:53.2

I was like, this is it.

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