Ep 49 - Punching Submarines and author Brian McClellan

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🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Brea and Mallory talk about military fiction and interview author Brian McClellan. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Care.com/glasses Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Brian McClellan https://twitter.com/BrianTMcClellan Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan (ON SALE!!) War Cry by Brian McClellan - PRE-ORDER! We Have Always Fought by Kameron Hurley Books Mentioned - Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride Old Man’s War by John Scalzi All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka Generation Kill by Evan Wright Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Girl at War by Sara Novic 1453 by Roger Crowley The Thousand Names by Django Wexler Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell The Black Count by Tom Reiss Quote at the end from White Teeth by Zadie Smith

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0:00.0	You're listening to reading glasses a show about book culture and literary life
0:06.9	designed to help you read better. I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour Mallory
0:10.8	Amerra and I'm Briar Yomera and I Bria Grant, actress, filmmaker, and e-reader.
0:13.8	This episode, we're talking about military fiction and interviewing author Brian McClellan.
0:19.0	But first, what are you reading, Bria?
0:20.6	Okay, so I just got back from a trip and you know when I'm on a plane I love to read a book set in space. Yes.
0:26.2	So because I like to feel like I'm there you know like I'm in space it's like this it's a very fun, it's a 3D experience, what are you about 40?
0:35.4	40 experience experiential.
0:38.1	So I picked up this book that I've been wanting to read called Nigerians in space thinking, this going to be cool it's not about
0:44.1	Nigerians they're gonna be in space they're not in space in this book
0:47.3	Oh no what a chip I would say it was a chipip except that I loved the book.
0:54.6	It was fantastic.
0:55.9	It's sort of a thriller crime book that takes place surrounding it with three different people. yeah it's fantastic the author I'm
1:04.9	gonna butcher the name is Deji Bryce Aleutun I think sorry you're
1:10.0	welcome to call me Brea anytime you want because I probably mispronounce that.
1:14.1	But yeah I actually it was really great I think it's the first in a series and I'm
1:18.1	definitely going to pick up the other ones it's just this really fun thriller it has to do with scientists and people trying to get to space
1:26.3	but there's no actual space travel within the book despite the being confused by the title I did really enjoy it. What are you reading?
1:34.8	I'm listening to the audiobook of a tomorrow will be different by
1:39.2	Sarah McBride and it's a memoir of so Sarah McBride is a trans woman and she worked in the Obama administration
1:48.6	and it's like a memoir of her life like coming out as a trans woman, but also working in the White House, working in government, trying to, like her struggle to like get more equal rights and more protections under the law for trans people and it is so good.
2:07.2	It is incredible.
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