Ep 115 - Books That Make You Feel Old and Other Historical Fiction with E.R. Ramzipoor!

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🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Brea and Mallory talk about historical fiction with E.R. Ramzipoor! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Promo Code - http://TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Live Show Stream Link E.R. Ramzipoor https://twitter.com/er_ramzipoor The Ventriloquists by E.R. Ramzipoor Books Mentioned - City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, illustrated by Jon Klassen Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Circe by Madeline Miller The Wonder by Emma Donoghue Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

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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.
0:09.7	I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory Omera.
0:12.3	And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.
0:14.2	This episode, we're talking about historical fiction
0:16.7	with author E. R. Ramza Poor.
0:18.8	But first, what are you reading, Bria?
0:20.6	So this wonderful thing happened to me this week.
0:22.1	Oh my gosh.
0:23.0	I was, I got an email from the library and it said,
0:27.0	would you like to check out this book?
0:30.0	It is a, what do they call it?
0:32.0	Have you had this happen? I don't know. Hold on. It's, um, you've got to tell me. It's called like, it's like a quick checkout or a, um. Oh yeah, they do it as a promo and you only get it you get it quickly but you only get it for like a week.
0:45.6	You get it immediately.
0:46.6	Yeah.
0:47.6	Um. Oh, I can't see what it's called. Anyway, um, it's like a quick check out. I'll figure out what it's called.
0:55.0	Where it's like, you, it's like for a buzzy book, and they have certain copies, they only lend out for seven days.
1:01.0	They do it with physical copies, I know. This is like a big thing
1:04.3	because you can go and find a really popular book at the library but it will be like on
1:07.7	this one specific shelf where it's like this shit is like doing seven days
1:11.3	you've got to have it back in seven days but I got an email
1:13.7	about it and I got an ebook that's that so I checked it out and it's um city of
1:17.5	girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. Oh I want to read that. Literally I'm looking at it right
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