ONYX STORM Rolls In, It's a Very Bookish Oscars, and Making Your Own Book Fair

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca note some side-effects of Onyx Storm's huge release before talking about Oscars nominations, NBCC finalists, recent reading and more. Then, Jami Attenberg talks to Rebecca about how she put together a book fair where every kid can walk away with a book. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky. Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter. A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder. 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 The Onyx Storm roll-out didn’t quite go as planned - and demand crashed the Target website and Fans are not impressed with the “exclusive” art NBCC finalists Oscar nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay Blob I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante The Language of Mathematics by Raul Rojas Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez Life in Three Dimensions by Shigehiro Oishi Jami's Craft Talk Substack How We Hacked the Scholastic Book Fair So Every Kid Could Buy a Book 1,000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round A Reason to See You Again Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.3	This is the BookWryrd podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
1:02.8	I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
1:04.1	And today we're talking about the onyx storm.
1:08.3	Storm?
1:08.9	Crashing. Yeah, thundering, lightning.
1:11.9	Wrecking havoc, I get.
1:13.6	Meteorological analogy goes here.
1:17.3	National Book Critic Circle Award finalist.
1:19.7	Oscar nominees.
1:21.4	Rebecca saw the Nickel Boys.
1:23.1	We've got reading to do.
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