Ep 329 - Hearing the Tinkling of the Fairies - Making Yourself Love a Genre

Reading Glasses

Maximum Fun

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

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory discuss whether or not you can make yourself love a genre, what to do when you hate Mylar book coverings, and good books to read for spooky season.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed
0:13.1	to help you read better.
0:14.1	I'm author and book dev hour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Briette Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.
0:18.7	This episode, we're discussing whether or not you can make yourself love a genre, what
0:23.5	to do when you hate my alarm book coverings and good books for spooky season.
0:28.9	Which we're ready for.
0:29.9	We've been training for that one.
0:31.8	Wow, yeah.
0:32.8	It's like a spooky version of the Rocky montage, I'm chugging candy corn, I'm running into
0:38.1	a haunted house, I'm lifting up cauldrons, I'm ready.
0:42.0	But first, Briette, what are you reading, lifting cauldrons?
0:45.3	Are they full of liquid?
0:46.3	Are they full of new, full of blood?
0:48.7	New size?
0:49.7	Okay.
0:50.7	I'm listening to something, I wanted to do something to kind of prep for spooky season,
0:55.5	and I've been listening to a book, maybe you recommended called Gory Details Adventures
0:59.8	from the Dark Side of Science, came out last year, it's by Erika Engel-Hopts.
1:05.0	Okay.
1:06.0	Erika is a science reporter who investigates gross things, weird things, death, morbid
1:12.9	things, all sorts of stuff.
1:14.3	I'm on a chapter right now that's all about bugs and eating bugs and like what, because
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