Ep 240 - Don’t Bend The Space Rules - Unlikeable Characters and Mike Chen!

Reading Glasses

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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory discuss unlikeable characters, recommend nerdy romance and interview author Mike Chen! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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0:00.0	You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed
0:11.9	to help you read better.
0:12.9	I'm author and book devour Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.
0:17.9	This episode, we're talking about unlikable characters.
0:20.5	Does it matter if they're unlikable?
0:22.3	We're going to find out.
0:23.5	We'll solve it once and for all today.
0:25.4	And we're also interviewing Reading Glasses' favorite, Mike Chen, about his new book, which
0:30.2	we both love.
0:31.2	Yes, but first, what are you reading, Bria?
0:34.3	I just started a book that came out from Orbit in 2019 called The Girl Who Can Move
0:43.0	Shit With Her Mind by Jackson Ford.
0:45.2	Now, yes.
0:46.2	Am I reading this book because it has a cool title?
0:48.2	Yes.
0:49.2	That is the reason I picked this book up.
0:51.7	It just felt like it would be something I would like with this cool title.
0:56.1	It's about a girl named Tegan Frost, who can wait for it, move shit with her mind.
1:02.6	And she works for sort of a government, or I don't know if it's a government agency.
1:06.9	I just started this book.
1:08.3	Basically, she works for an agency that sends her on like secret missions, and she has
1:14.4	to deal with being this like secret telekinetic person and also have a real life with like
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