Ep 232 - Pulling Books Out of a Hat - What Makes a Good Book Event

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🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory discuss what makes a good bookish event, recommend puzzle novels and talk about playlists for books.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed
0:21.6	to help you read better.
0:23.0	I'm author and book dev hour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.
0:28.1	This episode we're talking about what makes a good book event and a bunch of other questions
0:34.0	y'all had.
0:35.0	Y'all have a lot of questions.
0:36.0	This is kind of a questions episode, right, Mallory?
0:37.3	Yeah, we're solving some things.
0:38.8	We're solving.
0:39.8	We're here solving.
0:40.8	We're here to solve your book problems, but first, what are you reading, Brea?
0:44.2	Okay, so we just did our readathon and y'all loved.
0:49.0	Which people loved.
0:50.0	Y'all loved that readathon.
0:51.0	Wow, so many people tuned in.
0:53.5	We got so many great responses, but we asked people what they were reading and I kind of
0:57.2	clapped that there was a book that I've been wanting to read that was a lot of people
1:01.8	were reading, which was Light from Uncommon Stars by Rika Aoki.
1:06.6	Yes, this is becoming a buzzy science fiction book.
1:10.0	Yeah, and it's, okay, it's a lot of things here.
1:13.3	It's, I'm not only like a 10% of the way through it or something, but it seems to be aliens,
1:20.4	I'm sort of deal with the devil situation and then also transgender youth who is really
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