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Reading Glasses

Ep 113 - Who’s Making These Books?

Reading Glasses

Maximum Fun

Book, Education, Book Tech, Leisure, Reading, Hobbies, Books, Author, Advice, Library, How To, Writer, Audiobook, Arts

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory break down publishing and solve some review guilt problems! 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    Books Mentioned -  The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Wilder Girls by Rory Power Tacky Goblin by T. Sean Steele The Lady from the Black Lagoon (Large Print) by Mallory O'Meara Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat

Transcript

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You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

0:09.2

to help you read better.

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I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

0:13.0

And I'm Briei Grant, actress, TV director, and E-reader.

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Briei just got back from Bulgaria directing a TV show.

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Watch Pandora on the CW.

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This episode we're talking about exactly what a publisher does.

0:25.0

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

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Oh man, so I was in Bulgaria for three full weeks.

0:30.0

I'm acutely aware.

0:31.0

Actually more, like almost a month. Yeah you were gone for like three and a half

0:33.6

weeks and so I read a lot of books and I was just lamenting to you I don't know if that's the

0:38.4

right word but I was talking about how annoyed I was that I kept starting books

0:42.4

and I was like okay this is going to be a great mystery

0:44.3

it's going to get my brain distracted and they would like not be good and then I started like another book

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it was like oh it has like a complicated plot and it's going to be great and it was not good and like I just it

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wasn't maybe they weren't good they were like I couldn't pay attention to them and

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they were not be the right book at the right time exactly is what was

0:59.5

happening because my brain was really full and then I'm just going to talk about the best book I read

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while I was there which I know everyone is reading this book but I'm going to talk

1:06.3

about it anyway and then I picked up nickel boys by Colson my head and it was

1:10.3

so good and it was that breath of relief where you go,

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