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Ep 79 - Mr. Billy Bookshelf and Other Great Bookish Gifts and bookseller Amber Brown!

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4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory talk about getting gifts for readers and interview bookseller Amber Brown! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch  Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Amazon Wish List   BookRiot TBR   All the Creatures Were Stirring or here     Amber Brown Quail Ridge Books   Their Twitter Bookin'   Books Mentioned - Hate To Want You by Alisha Rai This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us by Edgar Cantero My Life as a Goddess by Guy Branum Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Becoming by Michelle Obama Girl Squads by Sam Maggs Little by Edward Carey Circe by Madeline Millar Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramovic Educated by Tara Westover Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Frederick Douglass - Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

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You are listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

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help you read better. I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

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And I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader. This episode is our 2018 holiday book gifting guide

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and we're interviewing bookseller Amber Brown

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from Quail Ridge Books.

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But first...

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What are you reading, Brio? So, oh boy.

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So I'm nearing the end on the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2018.

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I only had a few left and one that I had that I was like how am I ever going to get this

0:37.4

done was a romance novel it's number 10 romance novel by or about a person of color

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Did you find one?

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Oh, there's so many.

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I know, but you did you find one to read.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So thank you to everyone who's been giving us me book recommendations.

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I got a lot of recommendations.

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And I went with like, because there's some that were like people recommend of to go like pure straight up romance novel like not bodice ripping but like

1:06.4

shirt tugging shirt tugging underwear ripping that kind of thing oh man you were

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going whole hog.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So I started reading, Hate to Want You, part of the Forbidden Heart series by Alicia Ray and R-A-I. And I'm not very far into it.

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Is it steamy yet?

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