Ep 132 - Our Best Books of the Year!

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🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Brea and Mallory talk about their favorite books of 2019! 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 - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett Dig by A.S. King Recursion by Blake Crouch Amatka by Karin Tidbeck The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Salvaged by Madeleine Roux The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Bunny by Mona Awad The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden Middlegame by Seanan McGuire Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle Normal People by Sally Rooney The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, Jon Klassen (Illustrator) City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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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.
0:08.7	I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mera.
0:11.3	And I'm Bria Grant, actor, filmmaker, and E-reader.
0:13.9	This episode, we're talking about our favorite books of 2019.
0:17.0	It's finally time.
0:18.2	It's the last episode of the year.
0:19.8	It really is.
0:20.8	And now you're going to know what our favorite books were.
0:23.4	So we're very excited to talk about that and celebrate the end of 2019, but what are you reading,
0:27.5	Brea?
0:28.7	I have been reading this book and this may have been on my, the problem is like I try to do this
0:32.4	thing where I'm like I got to
0:33.3	read all these 2019 books do you in the same thing so I'm reading two books
0:36.8	right now both of them are really great but I didn't finish them so but I'm
0:40.8	reading past guests of the show's book,
0:42.5	Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs.
0:44.9	Big questions from Tiny Mortals.
0:46.9	About death, by Caitlin Dody.
0:48.8	Yeah, by Caitlin Doherty.
0:49.9	How is it?
0:51.0	One of our first guests on the show this is the perfect book to
0:55.1	download on your phone and have and read it the chapters are three to four minutes
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