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Ep 57 - Books That Changed Your Life and Guy Branum!

Reading Glasses

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4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory talk about books that have changed our lives and interview author and comedian Guy Branum. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Merch     Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List The Last Bookstore event with A.J.K. Donnell   Guy Branum https://twitter.com/guybranum   Pre Order My Life As A Goddess   Pop Rocket Talk Show The Game Show Books Mentioned -   Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix How to be Famous: A Novel by Caitlin Moran The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan   We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Where I Was From by Joan Didion Mythologies by Roland Barthes Maurice by E.M. Forster The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston   Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Decca by Jessica Mitford Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford   Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Hawkeye: Kate Bishop vol 1 by Kelly Thompson and Leonardo Romero

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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.

0:10.8

I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

0:13.4

And I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker and e-reader.

0:15.6

This episode we're talking about books that have changed our lives and interviewing author,

0:19.8

comedian, and podcaster Guy Branham. But first, what are you reading, Bria?

0:23.4

Now I'm going to talk about a book I'm not reading right now.

0:25.8

Okay.

0:26.8

I'm actually really excited to hear what you think about this book.

0:28.9

I read it while I was, so I was out of town for three weeks and I read it there and I didn't get to talk about it

0:35.0

on this show because I was at the town and we didn't record and chaos, but I talked about it

0:39.1

on another podcast I did

0:43.0

a lot of feedback from that so I thought I should talk about it on our show.

0:46.0

It's called Horror Store

0:48.0

and it has like oumlots over the O-store

0:52.0

I think. It's by Grady Hendricks. Yes and it's like it's like scary IKEA right? Yeah, it's like these people who work it's not IKEA it's like an off like an offshoot of of Ike it's like a IKEA like store. Yeah. I think because

1:06.4

I can't use real IKEA. I don't know I always wonder about that but um yeah

1:11.3

They didn't he didn't use real IKEA probably to save himself the the pain

1:15.1

and being sued by IKEA coming down on you. IKEA? They serve you with a

1:20.6

Schloom lot or something. That's what they call their suing papers.

1:25.8

They bury you in all of the screws that are left over from all of their bookshelves.

1:30.3

So true. They just like they're like you can get out of this if you just can find that one little Alan wrench thing you that to put together this last thing.

1:37.0

This kitchen table in five minutes. We won't we won't murder.

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