Ep 33 - If You Wanna be My Lover, You Gotta Get with My Library and Overdrive’s Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald!
Reading Glasses
Maximum Fun
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory Omera. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader. |
| 0:14.4 | This episode, we're talking about the glory of libraries |
| 0:17.8 | and interviewing Adam Sokol and Jen Grinnenwald from Overdrive. |
| 0:22.0 | But first... What are you reading, Brio? from Overdrive. But first... |
| 0:22.8 | What are you reading, Brio? |
| 0:23.7 | Oh my God. |
| 0:24.7 | I just finished this book and I'm going to talk about it even though I finished it last night |
| 0:27.4 | because it... |
| 0:28.9 | I literally, at some point I turned to my fiance and I said, this was like yesterday morning at like 7 a.m. I got up and was reading it and I said I have to finish this book because I'm so |
| 0:37.3 | concerned for this woman. I need to know what happens to her and that she's okay. It's the future |
| 0:42.0 | home of the living God by Louis Ardrich. Do you know her? |
| 0:46.2 | She writes a lot of stories. Do you know her? Are you friends with her? Is she your best? Is she her? |
| 0:49.7 | I've heard of the book, but I've not ready yet. |
| 0:53.2 | So there's, we're just talking about this how there's a pregnancy theme happening inside |
| 0:57.8 | by a lot of pregnancy books. |
| 1:00.4 | This is a world in which evolution starts going backwards and women |
| 1:03.8 | start giving birth to Neanderthals and then like literally there's like they |
| 1:09.0 | look out the window and there's like things that used to be cats that now look |
| 1:12.1 | like like saber-toothed tigers. |
| 1:15.0 | For some reason evolution starts moving backwards. |
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