This is the book Ryan podcast and I am indeed Jeff O'Neil.

I'm Rebecca Shinsky.

And I definitely just cut out me being a complete idiot

and waiting for Rebecca and getting mad or by the second

when I should have been saying something.

So that was cool. That was in the show, not at all. Today we are talking about the Booker Prize Short list being announced. We're talking about the ALAs report on a decrease eyes

emoji in bookbands. Another notable news of the week and reading Rebecca how are

you? I'm doing great. I have recovered from travel last week in New York I didn't have jet lag so I was a little bit ahead of you on that and we had a really great time talking about Intermezzo yesterday, which is what I spent the first half of my week thinking about. So, yeah, I said that we had this. We were trying to record that a day earlier than we did and I you know I was like I've

stayed up till 11 o'clock before reading and it's a book that I'm into and then about

830 on Monday night the jet lag was like oh it was three hours ahead in New York and the system

shut down and so we recorded a little bit later.

So it goes.

But yeah, had a great time and into this like back half of the week it feels like a kind of quiet like on the

normal to quiet side of bookish news this week some front list to talk about I see you've got some listener feedback. I'm curious

about what that's going to be. Well, first of all, if several people wrote in

notes to say they like the Is It Good format. So thank you for saying that.

And it's really Sally Rooney Week on the bookish. It really, it kind of quieted down with pub day. I have to say a lot of people were getting their reviews out a little bit earlier. And it's not the kind of book that's going to have a lot of

super hot takes associated with, I don't think. The ones I've seen out there are,

I mean, I can see, for example,

one that's being passed around

is why are all the characters thin?

An interesting question,

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