Ep 7 - Mallory is Obsessed with Iceland and Interview with Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

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🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Show Notes This week, Brea and Mallory discuss the best places for book tourism, interview Icelandic crime author Yrsa Sigudardottir and debate spoilers. Use the hashtag #ReadingAroundTheWorld to participate in online discussion on Instagram and Twitter! Links - Goodreads Choice Awards https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2016 Overdrive https://www.overdrive.com/ Hoopla https://www.hoopladigital.com/ Library Playaways http://my.playaway.com/playaway/where-to-find/ Libby https://meet.libbyapp.com/ UNESCO Cities of Literature http://www.cityofliterature.com/cities-of-literature/cities-of-literature/ Hay on Wye https://www.hayfestival.com/ El Ateneo http://www.buenostours.com/el-ateneo-grand-splendid-bookstore Belfast, Maine https://www.belfastbookfestival.com/ National Steinbeck Center http://www.steinbeck.org/ Harry Ransom Center http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ Yrsa Sigurdardottir https://www.facebook.com/YrsaSig/ https://twitter.com/yrsasig https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250045621 I Remember You Trailer http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3431198/chilling-trailer-icelandic-haunter-i-remember-you/ Ngaio Marsh Crime Awards https://www.facebook.com/NgaioMarshAward Arnaldur Indridason https://blueskiesandbriefchronicles.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/the-reykjavik-murder-mysteries-by-arnaldur-indridason/ Sjon http://sjon.siberia.is/ Audur Ava https://www.pushkinpress.com/author/audur-ava-olafsdottir/ Books Mentioned - Faller by Will McIntosh https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780765383556 Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780756410841 Dark Matter by Blake Crouch https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101904244

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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.
0:11.0	I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour Malary Omera.
0:14.0	And I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker, actress, and e-reader.
0:17.0	This episode we're talking about being a book tourist and interviewing Iceland crime author
0:21.2	Yursa Segurta d'attir. But first, what are you reading Bria?
0:24.8	I'm reading Fowler by Will McIntosh. I've read a couple of... So, Will, I call him well because we now follow each other on
0:35.4	Twitter I have not yet communicated with him. Isn't that the most exciting thing
0:38.6	ever? An author I really liked did that to me on Twitter the other day I was freaking out
0:42.2	I read a book that I really liked called Love minus 80 a few years ago and I just read Burning midnight and now I read
0:49.0	Foller which is wait for it, dystopian.
0:52.6	I'm so surprised.
0:54.4	Basically, everybody wakes up one day
0:56.3	and they can't remember anything,
0:57.9	and they call it day one.
0:59.0	And they don't know what's going on
1:00.4	and it is real violent and really crazy and also it's not the current world
1:04.4	we live in because there's an edge to this world that you can straight up fall off
1:07.4	of and what happens is this guy who starts calling himself fall or he wakes up and
1:11.8	he has a parachute and a
1:13.2	parachute like a little toy parachute guy in his pocket and he decides that his
1:17.8	and a map drawn in blood and so he decides this is so cool so he decides that... This is so cool.
1:23.0	So he decides he's going to, essentially as like sort of a stunt, he's going to jump off this giant building in the little area he lives in.
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