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šCubbies, Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Partners with World of Hyatt, and S.A. Cosby
New Bookum Features, Justin Baldoni, Audible
Kyle Colley
June 10, 2025
Happy Pub Day!
Thank you, everyone, for your patience while the Bookum app was down yesterday!
We are back up now (please download the latest update), and we are excited to share that we have an exciting new feature for Club Hosts (hence the downtimeš).
Check out the āThis Week on Bookumā section below for the surprise!
Last week, we sat down with historian and sportwriting legend Roland Lazenby to discuss his latest book Magic: The Life of Earvin "Magic" Johnson!
If you are a basketball fan, you are going to love this conversation as we discuss Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Nike, Jerry West, and the history of the NBA!
This Weekās Buckets:
š New Feature: Cubby!
šŗ Reeseās Book Club x World of Hyatt
š New S.A. Cosby Book
This Week On Bookum:
Book Clubs are getting an exciting new feature this week!
Introducingā¦ Cubby!
Cubby within clubs
Webster defines cubby (short for cubbyhole) as a small, snug place (as for hiding or storage)...
And Bookum is giving Club Hosts just that with our new feature!
 Within Clubs you can create folders |  Then you can add audio files to your club |
You can now store exclusive audios, podcasts, and more in your cubby for your club!
Your recorded Nooks can be saved here, podcasts or conversations can be uploaded, and itās a storage place for any and all your audios!
For members of your club, they can listen to your audio uploads directly on the Bookum app (yes, we have 2x speed and even 0.5x)!
You can listen to audio while browsing Bookum as well!
This is a great feature for those who might have missed a meeting or for membership Club Hosts that want to give their club additional exclusive content!
At Bookum, we believe in the power of conversations and through the new cubby feature you can share your audios about the books and ideas you love!
Try it now by downloading the latest version of Bookum!
Enjoy!
This Week in The Book World:
What's better than glampingā¦ glamping with your favorite book club!
Photo by Jonas DĆ¼cker
It was just announced today that Reese's Book Club (Reese Witherspoon) is partnering with World of Hyatt for a new summer reading experience: Camp Unwritten.
Camp Unwritten will have custom trips and will continue to offer intimate Q&As (let's call them fireside chats for the bit š) with a few of Reese's Book Club authors.
July 14ā16: Under Canvas Columbia River Gorge with Alexene Farol Follmuth, the bestselling author of Twelfth Knight.
July 28ā30: Under Canvas Great Smoky Mountains with Ally Condie, author of The Unwedding.
August 19ā21: ULUM Moab with Reeseās Book Club 2025 July pick. This mystery author and their book will be announced in time for the Reeseās Book Club announcement in early July.
We always love to see creative bookish brand collaborations like this and bringing exciting in-person author events to readers.
If you are a reading, camping, and nature person, this will be an exciting trip!
This Week in Publishing:
Who says summer just has to be beach reads?
This week, we are taking our talents to the South in this crime epic thriller from New York Times bestselling author S.A. Cosby and his new book King of Ashes:
Summary:
When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his fatherās car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the familyāand the family businessātogether. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day.
But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident, and Danteās recklessness has placed them all in real danger."
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Happy Reading!
See you next week!
Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):
Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/13/audible-unveils-plans-to-use-ai-voices-to-narrate-audiobooks
