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Reading Glasses

Ep 117 - Reading Series Is Like Dating and JY Yang!

Reading Glasses

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4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory talk about book series and interview writer JY Yang. 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    Book Buddy   JY Yang   https://twitter.com/halleluyang https://www.patreon.com/jyyang The Ascent to Godhood by JY Yang   Books Mentioned -  This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett The Guin Saga Manga by Kazuaki Yanagisawa Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older In The Woods by Tana French Homeland by R.A. Salvatore Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear by Walter Moers Storm Front (Dresden Files #1) by Jim Butcher The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

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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.

0:08.0

I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Br regret filmmaker an e-reader. This episode we're talking about series,

0:15.0

serieses.

0:17.0

Series.

0:18.0

Books that are in a series.

0:21.0

It's like Reese's peesies or Reese's pieces. It's a series. It's like Reese's pieces. It's like Buffalo. No. Anyway we're talking

0:28.6

about that and interviewing writer Jay Y Young. But first... What are you reading for you? Well last night it...

0:34.5

So my dog has decided she needs to go to the bathroom at 2 a.m. every morning and she

0:39.7

starts waddling around the house. This is not that interesting to most people. Mallory's

0:46.2

interested but it is literally she starts waddling around the house and then

0:50.0

she's like I got it I got to go out and I don't know what has happened that she can't sleep through the night anymore I mean she's like I gotta I gotta go out and I don't know what has happened that she can't

0:53.6

sleep through the night anymore I mean she's old.

0:55.2

She is old that's what happens to old people right?

0:57.1

Yeah so at 2 in the morning she gets up and I start to ignore her and then at some point I'm like

1:00.9

fine and then I take her out and so and then I get up and I read my book for about an hour so last night at about 3 a.m. I finished a book I think it's funny because people will comment or see it on good reason and do a like and I'm like I wonder if they see that

1:13.7

I'm putting this up at like 3 a.m. So anyway the book that I read was this is

1:18.0

how you lose the time war. Oh by Max Gladstone in a mall El

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motor yes correct. Pass guest of the show. Oh, by Max Gladstone in a mall El Motar.

1:23.0

Yes, correct.

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Past guest of the show.

1:25.0

Past guest of the show.

1:27.0

It's, so, it's getting a lot of buzz for good reasons.

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