Ep 265 - Like Cover Songs but Books - Why People Love Retellings

Reading Glasses

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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory talk about why people love retellings so much, review a book cart, and discuss how to log a book you’ve read in two different years.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed
0:14.1	to help you read better.
0:15.2	I'm author and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.
0:17.2	And I'm Briette Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.
0:19.7	This episode, we're taking off another box on the 2022 Reading Glasses Challenge.
0:26.0	Read a re-telling.
0:28.2	Something that the glasses are all clamoring for.
0:30.4	She put like a proud noise here.
0:34.4	Yeah, they love it.
0:36.6	They love it when you tell them.
0:38.6	But first, Briette, what are you reading?
0:40.2	I just finished a book that I really enjoyed, called Hide by Kirsten White.
0:46.0	Did you read it?
0:47.0	Oh my god.
0:48.0	No, but I just got back from vacation and my friend Melissa was reading it and she said,
0:52.2	it's really good and it's very buzzy and has a cool cover.
0:55.8	It does have a cool cover.
0:57.2	Basically, it is about a group of people who get invited to a reality show where it's
1:04.1	a hide and seek game, adult hide and seek in an abandoned amusement park.
1:09.6	But from the moment it starts, you get the feeling things are not what they seem in this
1:16.2	hide and seek game.
1:18.3	And one of the main characters is this woman and she's kind of like, she's just down on
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