Ep 343 - How to Find More Books You’ll Like

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

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory help you find books you’ll like, solve a problem about reading in a genre you write, and recommend good buddy reads.

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0:00.0	You're listening to reading glasses a show about book culture and literary life designed
0:11.1	to help you read better. I'm author and book devour,
0:13.4	Mallory Omera, and I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader. This episode
0:17.1	we're giving tips on figuring out what kind of books you like. Plus we're solving a
0:22.4	problem about reading a genre when you write that
0:25.2	genre, when you also are a writer of that genre, so this one is a shout out to the
0:29.8	writers and we're recommending some good books to read with friends.
0:33.6	Being of First Briam, what are you reading?
0:35.6	Oh!
0:36.6	Um, well, as you know, I like to pair my trips with books set in those locations and I recently went to Hawaii with some friends from college and I read
0:48.8	Sharks in the time of saviors by Kawystrung Washburn.
0:53.8	I had never even heard of this book.
0:54.9	I can't believe that.
0:55.7	It was like a big book in 2020.
1:00.0	Looking at it is one of Barack Obama's favorite books.
1:02.2	Jesus.
1:02.8	It was one of the best books by the New York Times,
1:05.9	The Guardian, The Globe, Oprah magazine.
1:07.8	If that ever happened to me as an author,
1:09.4	I think I would just retire.
1:11.4	He's so hip too. Like the stuff he reads I'm like, whoa, you read that like
1:15.0	what for you? So cool. I know very very hip. Anyway, like this one. It takes place in,
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