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Reading Glasses

Ep 223 - Banned Books Week

Reading Glasses

Maximum Fun

Book, Education, Book Tech, Leisure, Reading, Hobbies, Books, Author, Advice, Library, How To, Writer, Audiobook, Arts

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory talk about banned books for banned book week and help you decide what to do with a book you think is harmful. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Reading Glasses.

0:03.3

Show about book culture and literary life,

0:05.3

designed to help you read better.

0:06.8

I'm often in Book to Baller, Mallory, America.

0:09.2

And I am Brave Ramp, so make sure you read it.

0:11.2

This episode, we're talking about band books for Band Book Week.

0:15.0

Band Book Week, we finally, I finally got my shit together

0:17.9

enough to plan in advance to celebrate Band Book Week.

0:20.8

And this is, while people take off another goal

0:24.9

on the Reading Glasses challenge, another challenge goal.

0:28.2

Yes, first.

0:29.3

What are you reading?

0:30.5

I just started last night, a book that needs no introduction.

0:34.2

It's The New Colson Whitehead Book, Harlem Shuffle.

0:39.2

I love Colson Whitehead.

0:40.6

He can really write anything, which is very impressive.

0:43.4

Like, yeah, and you name it, he's written it.

0:46.2

And now, now he's doing historical fiction,

0:50.7

heist set in Harlem in the 1960s.

0:54.3

I literally just started it, but so I can only

0:56.4

tell you what I know about it from what I've read about it.

0:59.3

But it's about a guy who gets caught up in some sort of high-stay thing.

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