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Ep 124 - Be A Secret Witch with Ben Blacker!

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4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Show Notes -  Brea and Mallory talk about witch books with comic writer Ben Blacker! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor -  Short Story Advent Calendar Promo Code - GLASSES Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List   Newsletter    Ben Blacker Hex Wives by Ben Blacker and Mirka Andolfo Writer's Panel Podcast Comic Book Commentary Thrilling Adventure Hour     Books Mentioned -  The Stand by Stephen King The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers by Larry McMurtry You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle by Alexandra West Growing Things by Paul Tremblay Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Wicked by Gregory Maguire The Witches Roald Dahl The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder The Witches of Echo Park by Amber Benson Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack Hex Life edited by Rachel Autumn Deering and Christopher Golden The Good House by Tananarive Due HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt The Graces by Laure Eve White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi CIRCE by Madeline Millar Which Witch by Eva Ibbotson

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You're listening to reading glasses a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better I'm author filmmaker and

0:08.4

Vicky Bauer Mallory O'Mera and I'm brea Grant actress filmmaker and e-reader

0:11.6

This episode we're talking about which books with comic and TV writer Bria Grant,

0:13.0

Grand, after swimming through an e-reader.

0:15.0

This episode, we're talking about which books with comic and TV writer Ben Blacker.

0:16.0

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

0:18.0

I am listening to something, which rarely happens.

0:20.0

Oh, which means I actually am listening to, like, you know, normally I'm like, I read a book a week ago because I only read one book at a time.

0:26.0

Right now I'm actually reading multiple things because I'm listening to something.

0:30.0

I am listening to the stand by Stephen King.

0:34.0

That's a long-ass fucking audio book.

0:35.4

It's 48 fucking hours.

0:37.5

I am 10 hours in.

0:39.5

Oh my God.

0:40.8

I went, I've been traveling a lot. So what I've been doing is I put it on my headphones

0:44.5

while I'm traveling so like on the way to the airport in the airport which is like that's two hours right there

0:49.2

That's a terrible book to listen to in the airport. Dude because people are coughing and

0:53.8

shit I know I was listening to it on the plane and there's a person next to me

0:57.0

sneezing and I was like just staring at them like oh my god anyway if you

1:00.1

don't what the stand is it's like end of the world sort of flu-like thing kills most people.

1:05.0

That's all I know so far.

1:06.0

It's a great book.

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