Ep 29 - Born with Glasses and Memoirs with Anna Akana

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🗓️ 21 December 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Brea and Mallory talk about reading memoirs, and interview writer and actor Anna Akana! 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/reading-glasses Sponsor - Zola www.zola.com/readingglasses Anna Akana https://annaakana.com/ https://twitter.com/annaakana Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta https://gretta.com/1246042223/ Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Books Mentioned - The Murders of Molly Southborne by Tade Thompson The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Sky Is Falling by Kit Pearson Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cummings Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein The Ark of Asking by Amanda Palmer We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie Me by Katharine Hepburn Just Kids by Patti Smith Abandon Me by Melissa Febos Whip Smart by Melissa Febos Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch The Sociopath Next Store by Martha Stout In Real Life: My Journey To A Pixelated World by Joey Graceffa Y The Last Man, Volume One by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Pamela Rambo

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0:00.0	You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and
0:07.2	literary life designed to help you read better. I'm writer, filmmaker, and
0:10.6	book devour, Mallory O'Mara. And I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker and e-reader. This episode we're
0:15.5	talking about memoirs and interviewing author, podcaster, youtuber actress, actress and she's does there's not a thing that this woman doesn't do and I kana
0:27.0	But first what are you reading bro? Oh, I'm reading a short book. I'm in the midst of doing things so there's a lot of there's a lot of short book reading happening right now.
0:36.0	But I also feel like I want to get through things because I don't want it like weighing on me while I'm doing a lot of stuff.
0:42.0	I'm reading The Murd murders of Molly Southborn
0:45.2	Oh tour.com book right? Tade Thompson or maybe yeah, I think it's Tade A D.
0:52.0	It is about a woman, a girl, and then she becomes a woman, but a girl who every time she
1:00.5	bleeds, she, another version of her appears and tries to kill her and the person is like the same it is topical it's born yeah, it's born the same age I'm doing a sci-fi movie, so this is why I started reading it.
1:15.1	She's the same age as she is, so at the time,
1:17.3	so if she's six and she bleeds,
1:19.8	or if she throws up or any sort of bodily thing,
1:22.0	but bleeding is the main way then another
1:24.8	six-year-old appears and sometimes it tries to be your friend sometimes whatever but then sometimes
1:28.7	it tries to kill her and then it becomes a big problem when she gets her period.
1:32.4	Oh I was going to ask that.
1:35.0	Yeah, it's really a great read and it's a short, it's one of these tour
1:40.0	dotcom books that's like a novella.
1:42.0	Yeah. So it's very in my wheelhouse and it's pretty scary but very- I have a copy of it I should read it. Oh you should totally read it. It's really great and the cover is cool. Oh yeah it's a beautiful cover. We'll link to it. Yeah yeah for sure.
1:54.0	Mallory what are you reading? I am reading The Hero with a thousand faces I don't
1:58.3	know it by Joseph Campbell. It's like this oh oh like that yeah Joseph Campbell book.
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