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Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Get ready to add a LOT of new titles to your TBR list this summer! Three of the best readers around came on to talk about the book they’re extra excited about: Liberty Hardy, senior contributing editor and podcast host at Book Riot, Lupita Aquino, who is on Instagram and Substack as Lupita Reads, and Traci Thomas, host of The Stacks podcast.
Head to our website for more info on the books mentioned in today's episode: https://trib.al/QhoRdF0
Here are the titles in order of appearance:
- Rivermouth by Alejandra Oliva
- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey
- Loot by Tania James
- Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias
- The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
- The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec
- Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus
- Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel
- The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
- Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
- American Whitelash by Wesley Lowery
- 24 Hours in Charlottesville by Nora Neus
- The People Who Report More Stress by Alejandro Varela
- My Murder by Katie Williams
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This WBEZ podcast is supported by the Field Museum. |
| 0:04.4 | With 4.5 billion years worth of wonders, |
| 0:07.7 | there's nowhere you can't explore. |
| 0:10.1 | Meet the field's newest dinosaur, |
| 0:11.8 | the ferocious semi-aquatic spinosaurus. |
| 0:15.2 | Descend into an ancient Egyptian tomb. |
| 0:18.0 | Explore 10,000 years of Chinese culture |
| 0:20.7 | and see modern indigenous cultures tell their own stories. |
| 0:24.1 | Make friends with elephants, |
| 0:25.4 | check out otherworldly meteors |
| 0:27.3 | and visit Sue the T-Rex all in one afternoon. |
| 0:31.2 | Catch Earth's highlight reel and add it to yours. |
| 0:34.3 | Get your tickets and plan your visit at fieldmuseum.org. |
| 0:42.8 | From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:46.7 | We did it. |
| 0:47.5 | We made it to another weekend and in a whole new month, no less. |
| 0:52.1 | We are officially in the month of May, |
| 0:54.3 | which means I do not think it is too soon |
| 0:57.4 | to start talking about summer books. |
| 1:00.1 | There are some huge titles out this summer. |
| 1:02.2 | I'm thinking about Quietly Hostel, |
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