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Reading Glasses

Ep 32 - Audiobooks, Bed Hamburgers and Wil Wheaton!

Reading Glasses

Maximum Fun

Book, Education, Book Tech, Leisure, Reading, Hobbies, Books, Author, Advice, Library, How To, Writer, Audiobook, Arts

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory finally talk about audiobooks, and interview actor, writer and audiobook performer Wil Wheaton! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Links -   Audible Penguin Random House Audio Overdrive Libby   Loyal Books Digital Book Open Culture Audie Awards   Wil Wheaton https://twitter.com/wilw https://wilwheaton.bandcamp.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Books-Wil-Wheaton https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Wil+Wheaton Books Mentioned - Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore   Red Clocks by Leni Zumas   Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Sex Object by Jessica Valenti The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery   Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson   The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Exit West by Mohsin Hamid   Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory   Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds   The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman Hunger by Roxane Gay   Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Night Shift by Stephen King Carter Beats The Devil by Glen Gold House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski   Hell House by Richard Matheson   Crash Override by Zoe Quinn The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer

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You're listening to reading glasses a show about book culture and literary life

0:06.5

designed to help you read better. I'm writer, filmmaker, and book

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depower Mallory O'Mara and I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader.

0:13.4

This episode we're talking about audio books and interviewing actor and audiobook narrator, Will Wheaton.

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But first...

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What are you reading, Bria?

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I'm reading.

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Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poor do you know it no oh my god I stumped the Mallory wow

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Wow

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It's about a guy who has been reincarnated like 9,990 some odd times.

0:39.0

And you know... Is he have like a little punch card?

0:40.0

Now he's like, I finally get my free coffee. No no actually the punch card happens at

0:44.7

10,000 when you become a nothing. A nothing. You become nothing. You can't go back to the

0:49.4

regular world you don't get reincarnated and you don't get to go to perfection either so the goal is to achieve

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perfection oh shit and he lives all these lives and he just hasn't done it like basically

0:59.7

he's like for grasping procrastinating resurrection kind of and he keeps like living a crappy life and

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he has to go back and be like a garden slug and then he like lives he lives alive and he like

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almost makes it but then he doesn't quite make it so it's kind of about him and then he

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also over the course of his 10,000 lives has fallen in love with death

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death as he was like as as a woman. She's a woman in in this universe. I like I said in this universe.

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Like I said in this universe like maybe in another universe.

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She's a garden slug.

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