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This is the bookwryb podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And today we're

kind of in the February doldrums a little bit. We're gin and stuff up.

I mean, not gin and stuff up, but like there's not a huge amount of book releases.

It's not mid-year.

Middle of February, it's the worst time.

I don't want to say.

It just is.

So this is what we're doing today.

Yeah, it's cold.

The industry is a little slow this winter. Like the first really big release of the season isn't until what March 11th for Karen Russell. So we are, we're talking about movies and our desire for

books that we wish would be adapted. This kind of also feeds into Oscar season coming up.

We're talking about best adapted Screenplay shots for next week's

episode. So, yeah, a little crossover, but we know everybody likes to talk about the books

they wish would be movies or TV shows. Well, and it's a weird time for adaptations, too.

So what we're going to do is authors we think could especially benefit from having an adaptation,

a signal adaptation, we say, in this

report. And a couple of, I don't know, caveats, explainers, working assumptions. One is that

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