Happy Thursday!

April is here, which means we can finally break out the shorts and T-Shirts right?! Well maybe not quite in Colorado!

Let's get reading!

Today's Table of Content:

• 📚7 Podcast by Book Influencers to Listen to in 2023

• 📙 Amazon Shuts down UK-Based Book Outlet

• 📖 Author Interview with Kristina Forest

Shelf:

This week we are trading in our usual book list recommendations for a book podcast list of recommendations… (It's our Newsletter, we make the rules 😆)

In all seriousness, we are BIG book podcast listeners at Read More Media and we wanted to shoutout a few of our favorites this week (yes, including our own ‘Thank You For Asking With Amber Burns’).

These podcast are full of book recommendations and bookish conversations so technically we overdelivered this week 😏

Hope you enjoy and if you do please rate/subscribe to help support and grow these awesome podcast! (Bonus points for leaving a 5-star review for Thank You for Asking!!)

Page:

Maybe one day we will have news were people aren't mad at Amazon but it's not this week.

It was announced yesterday that Amazon will be shutting down ‘Book Depository’ its online shop April 26th. This shut down comes after two decades in business and as tech companies in American continue to do layoffs post pandemic inflation.

Based on coverage around the book world, this is very sad news for European book buyers and fans of exclusive European book editions.

For more coverage, we are attaching an article by the BBC.

Book:

It's been awhile… but we are back with an Author Interview!

And… we are back with a book that is currently surging in the book space.

This week we sat down with author Kristina Forest to talk about her critically-acclaimed rom-com, "The Neighbor Favor"

Kristina is spectacular at character development and it was a treat to discuss how she went about crafting characters such as Lily and Nick for the story.

If you are in need for a good love story (especially if you enjoyed "You've Got Mail”), then check out this interview and get a copy of "The Neighbor Favor" today!

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See you next week!

Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading):

Judy Blume fights back on Book Banning - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/03/judy-blume-book-banning-now-much-worse-in-us-than-in-1980s

Taylor Jenkins Reid's 'Carrie Soto is Back' Gets a Movie Option - https://deadline.com/2023/03/carrie-soto-is-back-daisy-jones-and-the-six-author-taylor-jenkins-reid-picturestart-1235313654/

Suns guard Chris Paul helps kids read, learn with his new children’s book https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2023/04/05/phoenix-suns-chris-paul-childrens-book-basketball-dreams/