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Blake Lively Surprises Book Content Creators at Book Bonanza, Live Stream Chats, and Olympic Swimmers!
Katie Ledecky, Percival Everett, Colleen Hoover
Kyle Colley
June 26, 2024
Happy HUMP DAY!
Here's to the first-ever Wednesday Bookum Buzz 🥂
Still out of the office but working (perks of having a mobile book club app).
On the final leg of the Midwest swing. Stopped by some bookstores and watched some Cubs baseball.
Here's proof below:
 Madison Street Books |  Volumes BookCafe |
Cubs Won!!
Enjoy the pictures while they last because it’s back to memes next time!
Last week we sat down with the awesome Alex and Books! We discussed The Art of Reading and applying what you learned from books!
The Tale of the Table:
📚Live Stream Chat!
📺 Book Content Creators Meet Blake Lively and Preview 'It Ends With Us'
📖 New Book from Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer Katie Ledecky
This Week On Bookum:
Last week, we unveiled our live streaming and reading sprint feature…
But we held back a secret.
Introducing Live Streaming CHAT!
 You can now chat with friends while live streaming |  Screenshot blooper! |
What's a live stream without a little audience comment and banter?
Listeners can ask questions, leave comments, etc., in the Chat space!
The audience area just got a lot more fun!
Don't worry, hosts, you can still boot any hecklers.
Our goal at Bookum is to be a place where book content creators can bring their communities to life and build exclusive experiences for their core subscribers. (Yes, membership club hosts can earn on Bookum similar to Substack or Patreon!)
Look forward to all the cool book club chats, reading sprints, cookbook lessons, etc., happening with this feature!
Start your book club with us today!
This Week in The Book World:
Colleen Hoover haters cover your ears 🙉.
Book content creators were treated to a special surprise this year at Book Bonanza…
Blake Lively.
It Ends with Us, perhaps the most popular and polarizing book of the last decade (which outsold the Bible in 2022), is finally coming to the big screen this year, and readers got a chance to see a sneak peek at Book Bonanza.
Book Bonanza is a book festival started by Colleen Hoover and her sisters, Lin Reynolds and Murphy Rae.
We will share some creators' content below:
@brooke_and_books It Ends With Us early showing tor Book Bonanza 2024! #blakelively #itendswithus #colleenhoover #itendswithusmovie @It Ends With Us
Regardless of personal opinion, it's always fun to see creators get exclusive first looks at books they helped become smash hits!
This Week in Publishing:
The Olympics are roughly just a month away, but swimmer Katie Ledecky is already making a splash on the pages!
The seven-time gold medalist recently released her new book Just Add Water.
Here’s the summary:
"Katie Ledecky has won more individual Olympic races than any female swimmer in history. She is a three-time Olympian, a seven-time gold medalist, a twenty-one-time world champion, an eight-time NCAA champion, and a world record-holder in individual swimming events. Time and again, the question is posed to her family, her coaches, and to her—what makes her a champion? Now, for the first time, she shares what it takes to compete at an elite level."
If you are looking forward to the Olympics like we are, check out the book and add it to your TBR on Bookum!
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Happy Reading!
See you next week!
Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):
Tune into the Bookum Authors Talk Podcast with Marcus Collins Friday at 9AM EST live on Bookum - www.bookumapp.com
