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Mar 2025
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#281 - What The Hell Is a Silent Reading...

Ariel Bissett & Raeleen Lemay
About this episode

Raeleen goes on an adventure, Ariel went on an adventure a year ago, and we have some big book news!


Links mentioned:

New Directions Publishing (they sent some books to Raeleen): https://www.ndbooks.com/

Lucy Maud Show News: https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/anne-of-green-gables-megan-follows-lucy-maud-1236311127/

Amazon Kindle News: https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb

Leena’s great video about the Amazon news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a9TW9_DCWM

Our new stamps: https://store.dftba.com/products/mini-book-stamp


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Chapters:

00:00:00 - So much to talk about

00:01:43 - Rae’s Update

00:16:47 - Cambridge Imprint Vlog

00:24:34 - Book Haul!

00:39:41 - What We Finished

00:52:51 - Currently Reading

01:02:36 - Book News

01:13:49 - The Mail Room

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