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Ep 28 What to Give the Book Person who has Everything and Ask a Librarian with Brazos Price!

Reading Glasses

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4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Brea and Mallory present the Reading Glasses Holiday Gift Giving Guide! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Tote Bags and Bookmarks- https://topatoco.com/collections/maximum-fun/products/maxf-rg-dnd-tote   Amazon Wish List http://a.co/dw6o3Jx   Sponsor - Storyworth storyworth.com/readingglasses   Links -   Abe Books https://www.abebooks.com 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   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article https://www.apex-magazine.com/ Books Mentioned -   Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780735224292   Old Man’s War by John Scalzi https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780765348272   The Name of the Wind by Pat Rothfuss https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780756404741   House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375703768   Fun Home by Alison Bechdel https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780618871711   World War Hulk by Greg Pak and John Romita https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780785125969   Play Their Hearts Out by George Dohrmann https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780345508614   Dream From My Father by Barack Obama https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781400082773   Down Among The Sticks and Bone by Seanan McGuire https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780765392039   Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062405838   The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062498533   Universal Harvester by John Darnielle https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374282103   Abandon Me by Melissa Febos https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781632866578   Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594633737   My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781606999592   The Changeling by Victor LaValle https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780812995947   The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062661340   Exit West by Mohsin Hamid https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780735212176 We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101912195   Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307949332   I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501126949   Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060733483

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You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

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I'm writer, filmmaker, and gift devour, Mallory Omera.

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And I'm Brave Grant, actress filmmaker, and gift devour, Mallory Omerra.

0:12.8

And I'm Giate Grant, actress, filmmaker, and e-reader.

0:14.8

This episode, we're giving tips

0:16.3

on giving books as gifts.

0:18.6

And we're talking about our favorite books of the year.

0:21.2

Yes, it's our special holiday episode, yay! But first, Malory what are you

0:25.0

reading? So this is the time of year where I realize it's December and I haven't read enough

0:28.8

2017 releases. So I'm just about, I just started Little fires everywhere by Celesteing which I have been I have had for a while I'm

0:36.6

I'm excited to read it just sort of like was off to the side and I didn't end up getting to it

0:40.4

But I'm such a long hold list of the library I'm definitely not going to be able to read this

0:43.4

oh my god borrow it after me oh I will it's I'm excited to read it every like it's lessing is the

0:49.2

author of everything I never told you which we both loved and this book is about a family that moves

0:54.5

to a small town in Ohio and the weird stressful things that happen. I'm not

1:00.6

I'm not very far into it so. Also I feel like everything I never told you is also the plot is like what?

1:06.0

But then it's such a well-written amazing book.

1:09.0

I love that book so much.

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It really destroyed me.

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What are you reading, Breyer?

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I'm doing the opposite.

1:13.6

I'm not reading a book from this year.

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