Happy Tuesday!

Alright, some good news and some bad news.

Bad News: The Olympics are over.

Good News: We get our reading time back!

Glad we survived!

These next 3 years and 364 days are going to be the Golden Age of Olympic-free interruptions in our sacred reading time!

Here's a quick list of books written by Olympians on our Bookum Blog - https://bookumapp.com/blog/books-by-olympians-for-paris-2024

The Tale of the Table:

• 📚 New Nook Show: Marvel Mondays

• 📘Cindy Pham and Jack Edwards take over YouTube

• 📖 Book Recommendation from Balanced Les

This Week On Bookum:

We are teaming up with podcast/book content creator Makeda of the Resistance Book Club and comic book writer @TheArtofKennedy to launch our first Nook Show, Marvel Monday!

Marvel Monday is a super-powered Nook Show with a Super Team.

The show will discuss comic book Easter eggs, storylines, and #MCU crossovers!

Unlike podcasts, Nook Shows are interactive, and anyone can listen live and join us on stage to discuss topics!

The first show aired yesterday and will air once a month after!

If you want to discuss books/book-related topics with friends, we would absolutely love to host your Nook Show on Bookum!

Try out Nooks today at www.bookumapp.com.

PS… We want to do a Sports Nook (half sports talk show, half conversation with sports authors). If you are interested in being a guest/host, please reply to this email!

This Week in The Book World:

Bookish creator collaborations are our love language, and today we've got a cool collab.

Book content creators Cindy Pham (@withCindy) and Jack Edwards team up with Booktube to present The Ultimate Booktube Community Reading List.

YouTube, owned by Google, has data on data!

They compiled a list of "books based on the most viewed and uploaded book titles in BookTube-related videos since 2012."

Cindy and Jack have been powerhouses in the book space for close to a decade. Both are witty, critical-thinkers, writers (both have new books coming soon 👀) and great creators!

It's a big win to see book content creators being highlighted for the great work they do in the space!

Check out the full YouTube video at: https://youtu.be/D569ZcfKe74?si=fT-RkxwZF2drS5QO.

Give Cindy and Jack a follow and tell them Bookum sent you!

This Week in Publishing:

Alright, we are changing the rules this week (What's the fun in doing the same thing over and over again?).

This week, we are trying a new thing called "The Creator’s List."

The Creator’s List is a book list by creators who have been on our Creators Talk Podcast.

We put a wire on them (Zoom mic), and anytime they mentioned a book, our editor (me) wrote down the book for this special moment.

Here’s Les Alfred (BalancedLes) of the Balanced Black Girl Podcast (episode here) list!

For each book, we tried to add the context for when they mentioned it so you can pick if the book suits you!

Here's the list below - https://bookumapp.com/blog/book-recommended-by-balancedles-of-balanced-black-girl

Book Recommendations from Lestraundra (BalancedLes):

1. Harry Potter Series (Childhood Favorite)

2. The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (A Good Book for Journaling)

3. On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi (Current Read)

4. Funny Story by Emily Henry (Balanced Black Girl Bookshelf Recommendation)

5. Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan (Favorite Author)

6. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (Favorite Book of 2024)

7. Becoming by Michelle Obama (Book Club Selection)

8. The Davenports by Krystal Marquis (Balanced Black Girl Bookshelf)

9. Worthy by Nancy Levin (A Book a Lot of People Don't Talk About)

10. This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan (Balanced Black Girl Bookshelf)

Add these books to your TBR on Bookum.

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Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):

Berkeley Public Library Puts Book Content Creator Mychal on Library Card - https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-iWvzcPykx/?igsh=MWQzcTM0c3hyNGs4bg%3D%3D

Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation Movie Casting - https://people.com/all-about-people-we-meet-on-vacation-movie-adaptation-8690579

Olympic Events as Books - https://tracithomas.substack.com/p/olympic-events-as-books