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Is It Good?: INTERMEZZO by Sally Rooney

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca debut a new format, "Is It Good?," with the most-hyped book of the fall: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney What People Are Saying About The New Sally Rooney Book Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Book Ride podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neil and I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And today we're diving in to Intermezzo.

0:40.0

Is it good? Sally Rooney. New thing we're going to try out called is it's good? Sally, Rooney.

0:43.0

New thing we're going to try out called is it's good.

0:44.6

I think we'll probably do this in two sections.

0:46.7

One relatively spoiler free that's more of a review evaluation of the reading experience of the book and then the second one will be, you know, get into the themes and do a little more discussion type things.

0:59.5

So we'll give you plenty of warning and I will do my best not to accidentally wander into stuff that may

1:07.1

maybe best experience for yourself. This is my third Rooney. I believe this is Rebecca's first his eyebrows are asking yes yes

1:16.5

this is my first Rooney I missed it before the hype got too big and we all know what

1:21.2

happens to me when the hype train takes off.

1:23.4

Yeah, and I guess before we actually get into the show, let's do a little meta-runi discussion here,

1:27.4

just real quick.

1:28.4

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