Ep 20 - Comic Sans on Your Tombstone and Amber Benson!

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🗓️ 19 October 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This episode, Brea and Mallory discuss comics and talk to author Amber Benson. Use the hashtag #ReadingComics to participate in discussion on Twitter and Instagram! Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta https://gretta.com/1246042223/ Reading Glasses Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/259287784548200/?ref=bookmarks Reading Glasses Goodreads Group https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/224423-reading-glasses---fan-group GeekDad - eReading Comics https://geekdad.com/2016/08/read-digital-comics/ Comixology https://www.comixology.com/ Marvel Unlimited http://marvel.com/comics/unlimited Amber Benson - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/58695/amber-benson https://twitter.com/amber_benson https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781608869831 Books - Wildwood by Colin Meloy https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062024701 Marrow Island by Alexis M. Smith https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781328710345 Sandman vol.1 by Neil Gaiman https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781401225759 Locke and Key vol. 1 by Joe Hill https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781600106798 We3 by Grant Morrison https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781401243029 The Goon vol. 1 by Eric Powell https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781616558420 Hellboy vol. 1 by Mike Mignola https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781593070946 Papergirls vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781632156747 Y The Last Man vol 1 by Brian K Vaughan https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781563899805 Maus by Art Spiegelman https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780394747231 March Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781603093002 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375714573 The Invisibles vol. 1 by Grant Morrison https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781401245023 Saga vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781607066019 Bitch Planet vol. 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781632153661 Trees vol. 1 by Warren Ellis https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781632152701 The Circle Chalk Man by Fred Vargas https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143115953 Blankets by Craig Thompson https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781891830433 Girl by Blake Nelson https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781481494984 Star Vs. The Forces of Evil by Amber Benson, Cindy Plourde, Dominic Bisignano https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781484774199

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0:00.0	You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed
0:11.2	to help you read better.
0:12.4	I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour,
0:14.4	Mallory Omera. And I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader. This episode we're talking about
0:18.9	comics and interviewing author Amber Benson. But first.
0:23.0	What are you reading, Bria?
0:24.0	Oh, I am reading Wildwood.
0:27.0	Wildwood by Colin Malloy.
0:29.0	I've never heard of this.
0:30.0	Oh, it is, well, one, he's going to be on the show so you should read it. Oh shit.
0:34.7	He's going on the show soon. People might know Colin Malloy he is in the band
0:40.1	The Decimbrist. Oh this go yes! My fiance may or may not be working with them right now.
0:45.0	It's called Wildwood and it has illustrations by Carson Ellis who they are married. They are married.
0:52.0	They are married couple. are a married couple.
0:53.0	It's pretty cute.
0:54.0	But it's basically, it's a Y-A book set in Portland, Oregon,
0:58.0	where the Decemberists live, also where my fiance is right now.
1:02.0	Very exciting. And where I'm going in a couple of days I'll be there and it is
1:06.8	set in the woods outside of Portland and a girl goes in and it sort of becomes like a YA Lord of the Rings or YA game of
1:15.7	Thrones where it's a bunch of people battling each other and also there are animals
1:20.6	who are can talk and they are also people living are there any
1:24.4	bears that can talk there are but they don't play a huge role that's fine I mean I
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