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Ep 33 - If You Wanna be My Lover, You Gotta Get with My Library and Overdrive’s Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald!

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4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Brea and Mallory revel in the glory of libraries, and interview Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald from Overdrive. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch   Sponsor - SquareSpace   Promo Code - glasses   Links -   Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Reading Glasses Amazon Wish List   Litsy Overdrive Libby  Professional Book Nerds Podcast https://twitter.com/probooknerds Books Mentioned -   Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet The Party by Elizabeth Day The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan   The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas   Thornhill by Pam Smy Iron Gold by Pierce Brown The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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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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