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Reading Glasses

Ep 107 - Test Out God and Other Nonfiction with Ross Blocher and Carrie Poppy

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4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory tick off another box on the Reading Glasses 2019 Reader Challenge with Carrie Poppy and Ross Blocher from Oh No Ross and Carrie! - read a nonfiction book you don’t know anything about! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List   Newsletter    Oh No Ross and Carrie!   https://www.facebook.com/ONRAC/ https://twitter.com/ohnopodcast   Books Mentioned -  Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols Experimental Film by Gemma Files The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson Real Queer America by Samantha Allen The Snakebite Survivors' Club by Jeremy Seal The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean Caesar's Last Breath by Sam Kean Spook by Mary Roach Suspicious Minds by Rob Brotherton The Book by Keith Houston

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0:00.0

You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

0:09.4

I'm author, filmmaker, and book debower, and Mallory O'Mera.

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And I'm Bria Grant actress filmmaker at E-reader.

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This episode we're checking another box on the Reading Glass's 2019 Reader Challenge.

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Non-fiction you don't know anything about with special guests, Carrie Poppy and Ross Blotcher

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from Oh no Ross and Carrie. But first what are you reading Brew? I am reading well as I talked about on the show I don't know when this comes out but I am doing I picked the sword and laser pick for this month for the

0:34.8

podcast it's our they've been on our show friends of the show and it's a book

0:38.1

called vessel by Lisa A Nichols I just started it and it's as I talked about on the show it's a

0:47.0

Sci-Fi-ish book sort of in the vein of the Martian or something like that very like one woman's journey.

0:54.6

I'm so surprised.

0:56.6

But she comes home sort of like I kept thinking about it like castaway.

1:01.2

She comes home and her family has moved on.

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Has been replaced by a volleyball.

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She has this volleyball.

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It's her best friend.

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And also there's a mystery thriller element to it.

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So she was basically came through a warm hole. They thought her everyone on

1:14.5

her ship was lost and then she was like no I'm here and then it turns out her

1:19.1

whole crew is missing and they're like what happened to them and she's like I

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don't know and that's

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spooky yeah spooky so I'm guess we will all know what happened to them soon

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so check that out and join us for that reading club adventure.

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