Ep 11 - You're Gonna Die with a TBR List! (And How to Accept that) and Writer/Disability Activist Elsa Sjunneson-Henry

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🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory help you manage your TBR pile, interview author and disability activist Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and absolve you of your book guilt. Participate in online discussion by using the hashtag #ConquerTBR on Instagram and Twitter! Link below if you want to support the Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! kickstarter. Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lynnemthomas/disabled-people-destroy-science-fiction-uncanny-ma Bookshelf - American Federation for the Blind http://www.afb.org/bookshelf/librarylogin.asp Books Discussed: The Regional Office Is Under Attack! By Manuel Gonzales The Witches by Stacey Schiff Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Updraft by Fran Wilde Borderline by Mishell Baker Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory

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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.
0:12.2	I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour,
0:14.0	Mallory Omera, and I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker and e-reader.
0:17.0	This episode we're helping you sort out your To-Bea Red List,
0:20.0	talking to author and disability advocate Elsa Elsa, Shinnison, Henry, but first.
0:24.8	What are you reading, bro?
0:26.4	Oh, okay. I am reading and slash listening to.
0:31.9	I actually just completed this, but the regional office is under attack
0:34.6	by manual gonzales are you doing the whisper sink audio book thing no I'm not I don't ever do
0:39.4	audio books because I do listen to a lot of podcasts and I kind of find that it eats into my podcast time.
0:44.4	But I happen to be looking at the library, I'm looking on Libby actually using the library
0:48.8	app Libby, and I saw that Regional Offices Under Attack also was an e-book that was available at that moment
0:55.5	and I had a drive across the city and I was like, oh I could put a dent, like an hour
0:59.3	dent into reading this book.
1:01.3	And so I did.
1:02.3	When, here's a question for you and for listeners when you talk
1:05.1	about audio books do we name the people who read it too do we give them credit?
1:10.8	Yeah. So just so you know this one's narrated by Mike
1:14.4	Chamberlain, Sarah Scott, Susan Hanfield, and Natasha Sotick. Oh is it for
1:20.5	multiple POVs? Yeah it is for multiple POV, so I guess that's kind of why they ended up.
1:24.1	Is it good? Yeah, yeah, it's good. It's good. And it's also...
1:27.0	It's a very Bria book. Sorry, what it's about is an organization that trains these female assassins and it's
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