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You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show

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about book culture and literary life designed

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to help you read better. I'm author

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and book devourer Mallory O'Mara. And I'm

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Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader. This episode,

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we're ticking off a box on the

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2024 Reading Glasses Glasses

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Challenge, Read a Debut Novel.

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Plus, we talk about buying a new e-reader.

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That's me. We left their e-reader

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on a Southwest flight and they could not

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find it. And

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we solve a problem

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about grief-related reader guilt. But

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first, Bria, what are you reading? Let me

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tell you. Let me tell you.

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I've just finished a great book, a

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book I was really looking forward to,

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called The Age of Magical Overthinking Notes

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on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montel. Wow,

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this book was designed for me. For all of you who are

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always like, oh, I want one of Bria's books that are about

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the brain and the way we think, just

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about thinking and why we do the stuff

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we do, this is it. This

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is it. Amanda Montel wrote that book, Cultish,

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which I thought was really great. This

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one is more about, it's stuff we talk about

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on the show. It's like The Sunk Cost Fallacy,

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The Halo Effect, these things that our

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brains do for some reason, but they are

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not serving us in the correct way. And

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also a lot to do with how current

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culture pushes these things in a way that

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our brains are not equipped to handle. And

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she puts a little bit of her own life

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in there, which I really appreciate. But it's amazing.

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It's so well done. It's very like

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these great chapters that are well researched

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about like, here's this idea. Here's the

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way our brains experience this

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idea. Here's how current culture is

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doing this. For example,

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Magical Thinking, she uses it to

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talk about how we'll be like,

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oh, I'm manifesting this.

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Or how we will just think like positive vibes

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will get us somewhere. And the internet really like

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encourages this kind of thing. of be like

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where we're like oh if you just think positively

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I can get through this. That's not a great

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example. She has better examples in the book but I just

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thought this was a really great book. I can't explain

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to you how much I loved it. Definitely on

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my top looks of the year. What are you

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reading? I am listening to an audiobook for a

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2024 book again. Bri and I are in

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our mid-year, oh god we've got to read

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new releases. This is a book that came

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out in February. It's a memoir through essays

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and I think it's going to be of

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interest to a lot of glassers. It's called

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Dinner on Monster Island by Tanya De Rosario

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and it's read by the author and it's

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this really interesting collection of essays that

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tells her story and relates to a

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lot of things but through the lens

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of horror films. So the author,

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she grew up in Singapore queer and

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fat and when she was a young

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girl her mother organized a gay exorcism

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on her. They try to exorcise the

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gay out of her. So obviously

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this is not necessarily a feel-good

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book but all these essays are

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about growing up fat, growing up

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queer in Singapore, leaving Singapore, being

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estranged from her, crappy mom. But

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again she's looking at all of

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these things like queer nightlife

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in Singapore, her being a

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creative person, all these parts of

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her life but through the lens of horror films. There's

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this one essay where she kind of

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looks at the history of Singapore through the

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lens of West World which is really fascinating.

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She talks about monsters, she has this

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one essay that's all about Japanese horror

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films and like the ring and that

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kind of trope of like the little

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long-haired girl ghost. It's so interesting. So

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if you're a person who even if

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you aren't into horror but definitely read

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it if you're into horror, there's just

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so much of interest to the glassers and it's not

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really long. I think the audiobook is like five hours

3:44

long. I don't have that much left to go but

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it's very interesting. Again it's check the content

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warnings because it's not a not a feel-good

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book but it is it's just

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absolutely fascinating. It's really well written and I really

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liked it just because I don't I've never been

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to Singapore. I don't know that much about Singapore

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culture. and being able to

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hear it from this really unique perspective

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and like like I'll never be able

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to think about Singapore without thinking about

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West World now. Wow. Absolutely fantastic so

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far. So that's a dinner on Monster

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Island by Tanya De Rosario audiobook read

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by the author. And mine is the

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Age of Magical Overthinking Notes on Modern

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Irrationality by Amanda Montal. So

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we want to take a moment to share some listener

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feedback. Amanda wrote in to say, I write to you

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today with a potentially hot Kindle book tip. While

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Amazon is nigh on to the devil, I

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like Kindle and therefore am forced to sleep

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with said devil. I know it's a

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dilemma for many many glasses.

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My hot tip is that I build my

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TBR on an Amazon wishlist. I also keep

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a spreadsheet but my primary TBR is

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on Amazon. Every morning I open my TBR

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wishlist and scroll through. Because Amazon runs lots

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of random sales, I can very quickly see

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which are discounted. It will literally say X

5:04

percent off next to the price and I'll

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purchase anything that's on sale. Often normally a

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12 to 15 dollar book will

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be discounted down to three to five dollars and it

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helps me save a ton of money. Hope

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this will help any fellow Kindle readers. PS been

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a while since I updated my wheelhouse so here

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it is. Romance with deep

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developing characters, LGBTQ characters, literary fiction

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with rich complex characters. At this

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point any genre with characters that

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grow and change and make me

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think deeply about the paralyzing existential

5:32

experience of the experience. Love it.

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Dark and wonderful. That actually is really great

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so you can see automatically what is very

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cheap right now and that look you're saving

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money and at the very least you're saving

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that money instead of getting that money to

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Amazon. So great. Perry wrote in and said

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I just learned that the Japan Foundation

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offers a digital library through

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Libby. Go on. Hot tip

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for Bria. For readers like

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me who enjoy reading Japanese

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literature. translation. The site offers much more

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than is available through my other library

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of cards and until you share this tip

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with much shorter hold times. It

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also has manga, staff pics, hobbies, and

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other categories. Go to jflalc.org/Libby to sign

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up for a card. I'll put the

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link in the show notes. Right away.

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Thank you for creating a fun and

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welcoming space for readers of all interests

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on your podcast. Wow, exciting. I'm going

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to do this on our break. Definitely

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love it. Beth wrote in to say,

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Hi Glassers, when someone tries to lend me

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a book I don't want to read. Oh,

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this was feedback about that listener problem we

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had where that poor person kept getting books

6:37

foisted upon them by co-workers. Beth says, when

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someone tries to lend me a book I

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don't want to read, I tell them the

6:43

truth that I am an e-reader only. If

6:46

they press, I explain myself, I have nerve

6:48

damage in my wrist, which means I cannot

6:50

hold a book for more than five minutes

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without pain. It's a really convenient excuse for

6:54

not accepting books I don't want. I love

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this. Probably not a helpful tip for

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anyone else, but at least my carpal tunnel is good

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for something. This is incredible. Someone's

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trying to force a book on you and

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you're like, I literally can't read it. I

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can't hold it. Too bad. Sorry. Sorry. Nope.

7:09

This is great. But you could

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also totally lie and steal

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part of this and just say, no, I'm an

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e-reader only. Yeah, you could. Don't read physical books.

7:18

I should say that to people. But yeah. But

7:21

then the only problem is this, like if I did this,

7:23

then I would never be able to read a print book

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at work again. That's

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true. That's true. But if you, for the

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e-readers, Beth, I think this is a great

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tip. Bria, you want to read Beth's wheelhouse?

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Yes. Memoirs, especially by comedians, monster romance, mermaids,

7:37

anything by Colton Whitehead and

7:40

lesbian nuns. Love it. You

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can email us at readingglassespodcasts@gmail.com. If you want a list of

7:44

all the books we talk about on the show, delivered to

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your inbox every month, you can sign up for our newsletter.

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There's a link in the show notes. And

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quick bookmark. I just want to reiterate last

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week's bookmark. If you missed it, I announced

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my new book. I am so pumped. It's

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coming out next year. Thank you,

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Bria. It's my

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next adult nonfiction. It's coming out in

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February just in time for next Women's

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History Month. It's called Daughter of Daring.

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It is, well, the full title, which

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is very long. Daughter of Daring. It's

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the trick riding, train leaping, road racing

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life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's first stunt

8:15

woman. So it is the biography of

8:17

a woman named Helen Gibson who was,

8:19

as I said, Hollywood's first stunt woman.

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But you might be thinking stunt woman

8:23

on 1980s, you

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know, Ellen Ripley from Aliens,

8:29

Linda Hamilton from Terminator. Oh no, she

8:31

worked in the 1910s. So this

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is a, it's also a portrait of Hollywood in the

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1910s, which I didn't realize

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fully, fully understand until I started working on

8:39

this book, which was a city run basically

8:42

by women. I really started out

8:45

this book because I wanted to write a

8:47

Hollywood history that wasn't fucking depressing. And it

8:49

was so exciting to be able to write

8:51

a book about a time when Hollywood could

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have turned out different. This was when women

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basically completely controlled the industry in all aspects.

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And in the middle of all of it

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was this woman named Helen Gibson, who went from

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being a rodeo star to an action movie hero.

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And all of the female action heroes at

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the time and the environment that encouraged that

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it's really, really fun. There's so much

9:12

cool. Like the history in this

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is just an absolute blast. So

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if you are into film, into

9:19

action movies, into horses, definitely, definitely

9:22

for horse girls. Or are you just like

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women's history? Yes, there's lots of pictures. Yes,

9:26

there's lots of snarky footnotes from me. I

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will also be reading the audio book. So

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if you want to read a history of film

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and women that doesn't make you

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depressed, this is for you.

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Please pre-order it now. Ask your library to

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order it. It's called Daughter of Daring and

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it's out in February. So before we talk

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about debut novels, we're going to take a quick break. Greeting

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reading glasses glasses glasses

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challenge so many glasses read

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a debut novel why did we put

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this on the challenge how do you

13:06

complete it and most importantly how will

13:08

this add to your reading life so

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first off here are the rules we know

13:13

the glasses are very concerned about this we love a parameter

13:15

so this is a debut novel not a debut

13:23

short story collection has to be a

13:25

novel also it has to

13:27

be a debut which means it's the

13:29

author's first ever published novel it's okay

13:32

if that author has published a short

13:34

story in an anthology before or even

13:36

a collection of short stories or poetry

13:38

but it has to be their first

13:40

published novel so Priya why did

13:42

we put this on the challenge because being a

13:44

debut author is hard it's

13:46

very hard the truth is a lot of

13:48

debut novels don't ever get published because it

13:51

is so difficult to get published as an

13:53

author if something that's very important to us

13:55

on reading glasses is supporting authors and entering

13:57

the publishing world can be very tough especially

13:59

for authors who don't already have an audience

14:01

built around previous books, or maybe they're in

14:03

some other media. Like there's definitely some people who are

14:05

like, oh, I'm a screenwriter and now I wrote a

14:07

book. You can use that, I think like trying

14:10

to find one who's an actual debut author who

14:12

hasn't done a lot of other things is the

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best way to check off this box. So going

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out of a way for one of these authors

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can really mean a lot to them and

14:21

can really change their lives, change their careers,

14:23

change their lives. That's also why we encourage

14:25

you to complete this part of the challenge

14:27

with a debut author who needs it. Right,

14:30

yeah. She's already famous, who's releasing their debut

14:32

novel. Doesn't really need the help as much.

14:35

Great example, one of my favorite books of the

14:37

year, Kelly Link's Book of Love. It's her debut

14:39

novel, but she's already released a bunch of short

14:41

story collections and been a finalist for the Pulitzer.

14:43

Like I didn't really count that as

14:45

part of the challenge because she's not like an

14:47

unknown author to me. You know what I mean? Yeah, and

14:50

look, you can use whatever you want. We're not gonna, no

14:52

one's gonna, we are not the book police. We're not gonna

14:55

come to your door and say, that's Kelly

14:57

Link, she's already famous. But if you can,

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try to find an author who's

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putting out a book for the first time and we

15:03

like it better. But you can check out the box

15:06

of cards. Again, that's the whole point of the challenge,

15:08

right? It's kind of like,

15:10

there's two ways to do the

15:12

reading glasses challenge. It's like you

15:14

could put the treadmill on and stand on the

15:16

side, so technically it's still going, but you're not

15:18

running that far. Or you could actually challenge yourself.

15:21

And we wanna use this part of the challenge

15:24

to challenge you to try to find an

15:26

author that is brand new, needs a chance.

15:29

But the thing is, it also helps you. Giving a chance to

15:31

a new debut author gives you a chance to

15:34

find a new author that you love. It encourages

15:36

you to try something new. There's so many books

15:38

that get released that it's very easy to fall

15:40

back on only reading tried and true authors. Trust

15:43

me, we know I get super pumped about, this

15:45

year, Helen O. Yemi had a new book out,

15:47

Tana French had a new book out, but

15:51

I have to remind myself sometimes you could have pushed

15:53

and try something new and then you get to be

15:55

the cool person who's like, oh, you read

15:57

so and so, I've loved them since their debut

15:59

novel. That's exactly I got in on

16:01

the ground floor It

16:06

really does help improve your reading life so Bria, how

16:08

are you completing this part of the challenge? Well,

16:11

I went back and I read some without meaning

16:13

to like I read pertish. Oh once the cuddle

16:15

and It's

16:18

her debut it's not her debut book, but it is

16:20

her debut novel and man I love that fucking yeah

16:22

The one I know for sure that when I started

16:24

reading it I knew was with Annie bought by Sierra

16:26

Greer which is getting a lot Attention

16:28

it was it was advertised to me as

16:31

a debut novel Like it said debut novel

16:33

by Sierra Greer and I listened to that

16:35

one and it was great Fantastic AI one

16:37

of my AI books that I've read this

16:39

year one of my sentient robot books Which

16:41

is many and we want to we want

16:44

to make it clear not books written by

16:46

AI books that are about sorry Yes, I guess

16:48

we should make that clear. I guess

16:50

I would assume people know that

16:52

but sure definitely This is about

16:54

an AI a robot woman who

16:56

this man has purchased and

16:58

she learns things But he's basically purchased her as

17:00

like a sex bot and then she starts to

17:03

become more of a partner bot And

17:05

then she starts to move beyond that because

17:07

her inner circuits are like whatever learning She's

17:09

learning and things start to change and she

17:11

starts to be unhappy and it's a great

17:13

debut novel. What a fascinating book I thought

17:15

it was fantastic. What are you reading for

17:17

this? Well before I tell people what I'm reading I'm glad that you brought

17:20

that up because most debut novels are

17:23

Marketed as such if you look in

17:25

the copy for the book on whatever

17:27

website, you know Whatever bookstore it normally

17:29

will say debut novel. Yeah, and because

17:31

it's not a genre of book. It's

17:33

a type of book It can be

17:36

kind of hard none of the books

17:38

you're looking at say that you're not

17:40

sure how to find it Just google

17:42

debut novels 2024. I think also bookshop

17:44

org like on their weekly email They

17:46

have like a debut novel section if

17:48

I am remembering correctly Like

17:51

they definitely are put they push debut

17:53

novels Maybe I'm wrong, but there's something

17:55

you know, I get Talks about debut

17:57

novels for sure. But Anyway, the way that I

17:59

completely it is part of a challenge. I think

18:02

I mentioned it while I was reading it, but

18:04

I want to talk about it again because it

18:06

just came out and God it's so fucking good.

18:08

It's a letter to the Luminous The by Sylvia

18:10

Thrall. Thanks again to our friends over at Orbit

18:13

for hook and that up. So it's in a

18:15

pistol. Very cosy, romanticize. Although it's I really do

18:17

feel it leans more saif I, so I call

18:19

it romanticize. New Money to say I am. I

18:21

Love! This book is in the early running for

18:24

one of my best books of the year. It

18:26

takes place in a far far. Future world where

18:28

most of the earth is underwater so most

18:30

people live an underwater. Cities lot of

18:32

people study the C B His. Theory.

18:35

Printed them to this to stories happening

18:37

one in the past timeline which is

18:39

a marine biologist and this Recklessly start

18:42

sending letters to each other bonding over

18:44

marine biology. These are falling in love

18:46

and the Reckless has the sort of

18:48

weird mystery that's happening around her house

18:51

and she is enlisting the marine biologist

18:53

to help her and then mysterious circumstances

18:55

happen and they disappear. Said. That

18:57

as a present timeline. Their two siblings,

18:59

his brother and her sister start writing

19:02

to each other to figure out what

19:04

happened to their siblings and it is

19:06

so compelling and sweet and very clear

19:08

as I really fucking loved it again

19:10

and I'm very blow at. Sometimes You

19:13

read a debut novel and you're like.

19:15

Damn. This is As Purses first novel. That's

19:17

how I felt about this one arm and now

19:20

I have a new author I love. Like this

19:22

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that guy is are quite all. I've been

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at as upon as I have a lot

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of books, cement and off and I have

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a lot of preordered bucks. That. Will go

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to Kindle like their high Border in a lot of

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when I order books on my Kindle and like

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twice while we been on the Shell. While

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we talking. I

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didn't even. Think about it just as moments. I.

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Should automatically. There's like oh I like this

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author like I should go ahead and like

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order this but like you were talking about

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something like that. Respect mm or any us

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So. It's hard for

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me to want to move beyond that. You know

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and how they get Sir you know cause they're

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like know you already have over thousand books on

23:43

your Kindle the and you have the history. The

23:45

books I read the book graveyard were like the

23:47

books. You can't look at them anymore but I

23:49

can see they check them out own of they

23:51

would still be on my Kindle but I have

23:53

with all these folders I don't have that would

23:55

transfer over if I have my new Kindle it's

23:58

it's half of that little about so I. The

24:00

books I purchased at there is a way.

24:03

Apparently you can download them and you can

24:05

move them over to your kobo, but it

24:07

is a process mit lazy for that. Probably.

24:10

Probably too lazy to. Well did you

24:13

see that there is the new Kobo

24:15

paper? White collar paper. White collar and

24:17

I was just a color not paper

24:19

way. Tied. The I think it

24:21

is. It's that paper like non backlit but it

24:23

has color. Oh you're right there is okay that's

24:25

it. Watching some I have to address that. One

24:27

I think is very interesting is when we had

24:29

Michael who is the Ceo of Kobo on to

24:31

talk about it I was like my the for

24:33

it He was like all would you want to

24:36

see Nicobar knows the color and he was. He

24:38

was very evasive about it. Turns out this is

24:40

why man for the thing that I find interesting

24:42

about the Kobo color and I would if anyone

24:44

has bought one and as used it please write

24:46

in and tell us because my first thought was

24:48

like oh my god graphic novels but all. The

24:50

examples that they have on the cooper

24:52

web sites are just like highlighted words.

24:55

In. A regular novel in color, which

24:57

leads me to believe that may be.

25:00

It's there's not a lot of colors available

25:02

like it's not quite good enough to look

25:04

at graphic novels yet. Which for me I'm

25:06

like well what's the point I said you

25:08

know isn't out yet comes out our be

25:10

out by the this episode comes out by

25:12

it comes out April Thirtieth. Oh yeah it's

25:14

about it comes out in a few dates

25:17

from one the recording loves. I'm very curious

25:19

but I would need to see. More.

25:21

Examples of different types of color on

25:23

the screen but I am interested in

25:25

it. So with the what is making

25:27

you. Consider moving to Cabo. Is

25:30

it just the Amazon thing? Amazon being other? Kill

25:32

those. Also. Has. A parent company.

25:34

I mean it's not like were sleeping

25:36

large parent company is ion Yeah, That's

25:38

basically it. I mean at At So okay.

25:40

The things that are important to me: Paper

25:42

Why I do want paperweight again. I'm reading

25:44

right now on my I pad and I

25:46

can tell that it's keeping me up more

25:48

than the paper. Whitehead I can just feel

25:50

the difference. Also, would I open it at

25:52

night when it's done in the room? It's

25:54

like officers like or there is nothing I

25:56

light on. So nice to say. calming. And

25:58

I want a waterproof. One and you something

26:01

sad actually had a and a kindle waterproof

26:03

that was given to me as a guest

26:05

and my brothers kindle broke and so I

26:07

let as like our have the swine you

26:09

to use am and I hear a good

26:11

about a good book is the married and

26:13

and again going back Now it's too late

26:15

I'm at so I the games to buy

26:17

one so waterproof because I'm always worried about

26:20

spilling water. I'm I'm and that and the

26:22

paper white those are the most important things

26:24

my last one. Also to be fair it

26:26

probably need to be updated. It had a

26:28

terrible lag like I press the button. To

26:30

Move. To the next page and will be like. Of

26:33

it like he likes it because I guess

26:35

and like downloading to go on as things

26:37

to come on time so it's probably time

26:40

to replace it anyway although I always something

26:42

until it basically to squeeze with working on

26:44

this is the best. Other thing is I

26:46

would say that old and elsewhere disappointed with

26:48

the aging other like it was. oh I

26:50

mean I guess it was probably six years

26:53

old or something. mix it maybe that is

26:55

kind of old for. For be Oh

26:57

geez. pretty old a I think

26:59

the last time. They spend my day

27:01

and I agree but like allows it

27:04

to as an I phone and email

27:06

within a year. It's be it feels.

27:09

You. Could see with age lane out of years

27:11

for for you readers. Breguet Yeah I guess it.

27:13

It has been a minute since I got that

27:15

one so I think I think I'm gonna go

27:17

paper way. I think I'm in a go waterproof.

27:19

Those feel like the most important things to me

27:22

and the things that I know will. Keep.

27:24

Me from damaging it's an Asa damaging

27:26

me about. I'll update you. Made a

27:28

preliminary wish list and seventy to send

27:31

me one and I I now have

27:33

the only nice. He's a really expensive

27:35

amino and hundred thirty bucks. but they

27:37

were. Two hundred about the Muslim people. So.

27:39

Are you interested in your if you want to

27:41

get a new one not used one? well that

27:43

was. The only thing is that I'm not opposed

27:45

to a a refurbished one like there's a lot

27:48

of refurbishment. I bailed most of my i didn't

27:50

this time but usually my last after always refurbish

27:52

laptops phone they usually by refurbished because I feel

27:54

like a why make something new when you've been

27:56

to three service and you can get the same

27:58

thing it's usually like a little bit cheaper. The

28:00

way cheaper to get refurbish. but I do. Not

28:02

only are you burn as much as dishonest cheap

28:04

as I would hope it would be. Very honest

28:06

thing I. Now that's the problem with all of

28:08

these products but I'm like at least they aren't

28:10

like going back and like taking more valuable things

28:13

that are the grad. Oh no it didn't damage

28:15

that making a new electronic does. At least I'm

28:17

like it's already out there. I guess you want

28:19

to keep the seem like shape that you had

28:21

before where the buttons are on the bottom or

28:23

you interested in getting one of the ones where

28:25

the the buttons are on the side and has

28:27

i kind of a handle. mine has no buttons.

28:30

There are no buttons. Ah if only

28:32

the on off little switch or modern

28:34

curious and I I'll I'm fine with it

28:36

is all touch screen and then add

28:38

the on an off button on the bottom

28:41

you care about. It. Better have a

28:43

fucking charger that fits the other charges in

28:45

my house because my phone doesn't cause I

28:47

got a new phone and that was on

28:49

me since i just i just hate that

28:51

the phone charger is difference but now my

28:53

phone chargers that so irritating them to pack

28:55

to chargers said you care what kind of

28:57

you speak able as. But. I guess now

28:59

I have. You are my A You right? Now. So

29:01

it doesn't really matter. On it

29:04

that in a derogatory handle. I

29:06

can get a bundle. As Kindle unlimited

29:08

for free, so there's that. But

29:10

yeah, he's a refurbished paper way

29:12

that looks pretty nice. a little

29:14

bit cheaper. I don't care about

29:16

color, I had a black one that

29:19

was fine. I. I. Really don't care. and

29:21

here's a there's several paper ones that are actually

29:23

refurbish that are pretty cheap. Yeah don't the a

29:25

lot of some I don't They. Are like and

29:27

I don't want to I a big big ones Now

29:29

I'm. Like. I see some of

29:31

them there. they have kinda ones. they also kobo ones

29:33

in that the books. Box. Below.

29:37

Acts like they're halfway between the size of a

29:39

small he reader and like an I pad molecular

29:41

that a little too big. no I in fact

29:43

that's something I really don't like about my ipod

29:46

reading. Am I packed as it's of I pad

29:48

size and I feel like I have like kind

29:50

of physically move it as I move down and

29:52

up the page and I and I don't want

29:54

that them on always I'm reading and bad. yeah.

29:57

Yeah. Not a fan so I am sick of the

29:59

Dell. I know, Probably because I already know how

30:01

did you ads and all my books Adidas transfer

30:03

all my books directly on to act as again

30:05

I've been using Kindle for now. Ten.

30:07

Plus years I just have a lot of books

30:09

that I bought ebooks that people have sent me

30:11

a Pbs thirties I don't one on anymore as

30:14

that I probably sit and transfer a run of.

30:16

I can keep that like have a little old.

30:18

scrupulous everyone will cleanse and kinda Oakland's which I

30:20

used to do more often and I've been really

30:22

bad about that. So I think paperweight. Small.

30:25

Size I don't care the color, There's

30:27

into colors though. I'm looking at the colors. there's some

30:29

like do they come and colors know while the kids

30:31

ones and the they have white ones I guess I

30:33

guess is white or black. The. Kids like Green

30:35

Stuff and Eleven feel. I feel like we

30:38

got a hot book tip a few years

30:40

ago where someone said you should just buy

30:42

a kids Kindle because they're cheaper and they

30:44

do the same thing really. Ah, but they

30:46

have play last Know some magic about you

30:48

say? That staying.

30:51

Aware: This is pretty cool. There is

30:53

one with a charging dock. Wireless charging

30:55

dock. Who. Added that he

30:58

interesting. And this one. This

31:00

is a very expensive one and has outlaw

31:02

screen. There's no ads. Which. Is nice

31:04

be those don't have ads on the front. I

31:06

think that would bother me how it's irritating but

31:08

now or the when I had just said the

31:10

book I was reading which I did like yeah

31:13

sounds not and that I lose and that's honestly

31:15

kind of why of why I'm interested in the

31:17

I'm in the Kobo color. That would be really

31:19

fun to see. That. Covers

31:21

of books in color. That was really

31:23

nice. Honestly, I do like that. I'd

31:26

yes, here's a refurbished why and. Sixteen.

31:29

Gigabytes that as a larger

31:31

display. And it's denim colors.

31:33

which means bush is bliss.

31:35

This so it's a I

31:37

G reader. Reader

31:40

Reader please not and all it's since.

31:43

But it's not waterproof. I gotta I learned which is

31:45

important I'd I spend too much time. Around water. A

31:48

See a Live in a Box Silver Spray.

31:50

Asleep on a water lily every night. See needs

31:53

this? How flag, even what other ways there's a

31:55

waterproof, a reader for reading, writing, and sketching called

31:57

the Way I don't need that. although I am

31:59

learning to. So that's a whole new

32:01

part of my life. Here's the signature edition. I

32:04

don't know. I'm gonna figure it out I am

32:06

gonna throw one on our Amazon wish list and

32:08

you know readers if you're feeling Very

32:11

generous and then I'll review it on the show. Yeah,

32:13

there's a bunch of good ones on here. I don't

32:15

know I'm still thinking I'm considering it because I have

32:17

something that works and it's very hard for me to

32:19

get rid of something that works When it works because

32:21

I'm like it is very hard to switch systems I

32:24

will say I know but that's like you said that's

32:26

what keeps you into something I think that's what a

32:28

lot of people are in your position because once you're

32:30

already in the Kindle system It's familiar issue. Yeah, and

32:32

when you're reading, you know, I mean when

32:35

I remember when I got my Kobo There was kind of

32:37

like a speed bump of like I had to learn

32:39

how to use it now Obviously, I've had it for

32:41

years. I love it, but I would definitely be hesitant

32:43

to move to a different System

32:46

because the last thing you want to do when you're

32:48

sitting down to read is like I gotta figure something

32:50

out Yeah, yeah, that's the problem. Is that like figuring

32:52

all that out would be tough. I could do it

32:55

It would just be a pain in the ass. Well, Bria keep

32:57

us posted I know there's a lot of people

32:59

who are in the process of upgrading their own

33:01

e-readers right in at reading glasses podcast@gmail.com Tell us

33:03

what you're buying what you're looking for is hot

33:06

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33:08

know you can send your book tech ideas to reading glasses

33:10

podcast@gmail.com or if you

33:13

are very generous and want to buy Bria and

33:15

go to check out our wish list in the

33:17

show Now Let's

33:23

answer a bookish problem from one of our

33:25

listeners just a quick content warning This does

33:27

have a lot to talk about grief and

33:30

death so if you aren't in a place

33:32

to be able to Listen to that just

33:34

fast forward to the end of the episode because that's what we're gonna be talking

33:36

about in this in this segment Caitlin

33:38

writes in dear Bria and Mallory Obligatory intro

33:40

talking about how much I love your podcast

33:42

and that you've changed my perspective on reading

33:45

and how Thursdays are wonderful Because of you

33:47

two lovely ladies now on to the problem.

33:49

My sister wanted me to read insomnia by

33:51

Stephen King I don't like Stephen King. I

33:54

hate anything scary And he's the

33:56

Jane Austen of sci-fi in my opinion. Which

33:58

I'm very curious as to what. Mean

34:00

by that he maybe this is I target

34:02

because I don't like Jane Austen's in I'm

34:05

like oh this is like it's like basic.

34:07

It's like size. I stuff that like you

34:09

don't think very good. I. Think

34:11

that because I don't like. Se. Nos and

34:13

I don't know what I thought. I kind of

34:15

understand the Jane Austen as I fi because I

34:17

also wouldn't pick up sales. He. Went on

34:20

a self professed say ways that counts as I

34:22

love my sister and I didn't want to tell

34:24

her no I told her I would read all

34:26

my phone but she insisted I take her copy

34:28

homes and add to the killed in get me

34:30

to read it which is you know very problem

34:32

of and on mother's on the shelf for killing

34:34

says well. She. Died a week later.

34:37

It has been six years now and the book

34:39

has been staring at me on my bookshelf ever

34:41

since. I feel incredibly guilty that I still not

34:43

Reddit, given the fact that your podcast has helped

34:46

me become a former book snob. Is there a

34:48

way I could refrain my approach to try to

34:50

read it? Enjoy it even. Bria:

34:52

you want to read Kale and Will house. Guess

34:54

anything? With Us Presidents cozy

34:56

crime, Quirky Gay Being quirky Gays

34:59

my groceries and biographies about bad

35:01

Us women's not Stephen King that's

35:03

not an expert Said. Com

35:06

or eyebrow? What do you think he'll and should do? Wow.

35:10

This is a big way this is. Listen

35:12

We always like to start with saying we're

35:14

not therapists we not trained using were trained

35:17

in his podcast things which is nice but

35:19

we're not even during a man we aren't

35:21

were joined in. that's of he. Here's my

35:23

advice and I you listen. I think you'd

35:26

deal if you want to deal with this

35:28

by a pity that find another way to

35:30

honor your sister that might be better than

35:32

reading a book you hate. I.

35:34

Don't know is that is going to

35:37

feel helpful to you and she she

35:39

had other interests other requests you know

35:41

I it you can find another way

35:43

I think that.would just be as great

35:45

as honoring. Your sister's memory by reading a book

35:48

that you really don't want to read. If

35:50

you really want to dive into the but. i

35:52

know it's been years i still think there's no

35:54

hurry this can be a fixture on yourselves for

35:56

as long as you want it to be like

35:58

people who feed on your and you'd be like,

36:00

oh, that's the book my sister gave me. It's

36:03

the last thing she gave me. No guilt about

36:05

reading it or not reading it. This has now

36:07

become just maybe a fixture in your house. This

36:09

is the equivalent of a gift, not an assignment.

36:11

This is a bobble. What do you call it?

36:13

Like a knick-knack. This is something you're decorating your

36:15

house with. It's something you keep,

36:17

you hold onto, but without the guilt of

36:19

needing to read it. It's just like if

36:21

your loved one gave you something else, it's

36:24

not a book. If they gave you

36:26

a Scrabble board, you wouldn't feel the need to play Scrabble every night.

36:28

You know what I mean? I

36:30

have a book like this. The

36:32

last time I saw my grandfather before he died, he

36:35

gave me a book that I

36:37

will never read. It's like a

36:39

Christian Christmas book. And

36:42

I will never read it, but I do have it saved

36:44

because it's like the last book my grandfather ever gave me.

36:46

Yeah, it's more of like, think

36:48

of it as a gift instead of an assignment. Like

36:51

instead of a request, although I know she requested it,

36:53

I think that is also a way to honor your

36:55

sister. Like, ah, that was a book

36:57

my sister loved, Insomnia, by Stephen King, which

36:59

is such a funny book that people, it

37:01

could start a lot of conversations, I think.

37:04

What do you have for Kaitlyn? Wow.

37:07

Holy shit. I do want to say, I think

37:09

if there is an afterlife, your sister's probably laughing

37:11

her ass off. What a move. What

37:14

a move. Now you must be Stephen King. Wherever

37:17

she is right now going, heh, heh, now

37:19

you have to read it because I died.

37:22

Truly, truly the ultimate bookish

37:25

guilt power move. So first off,

37:27

Kaitlyn, I just want to relieve you of any guilt.

37:29

I don't think being a former book snoot has anything

37:31

to do with this. I don't think it's snooty to

37:33

not like scary books or a particular author.

37:35

You know, it's not like Kaitlyn

37:37

feels above reading this. It's just

37:39

not what she's into. Second

37:42

off, I do want to say I tapped in a professional

37:44

for this. I called in friend of the show, Scott Wampler,

37:46

who is a co-host of the KingCast, and

37:48

professionally talked about Stephen King. I called him

37:50

up and I read him this. And he

37:52

said that Insomnia is not a good book to

37:54

read if you're easily scared. And not a good book to

37:56

start with if you don't like Stephen King. So

37:58

based on someone who's... job it is to talk

38:01

about Stephen King, I would say

38:03

don't read this book. And if your sister was alive,

38:05

again, you didn't want to read it when she was

38:07

alive. And we would tell you not to

38:09

read it and give it back to her, you know. And

38:12

I don't think that changes now that she has

38:15

passed away. My solution here is I think you

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should find a book that your sister loved that

38:19

you do like. Like if your sister

38:22

read enough to like insomnia by Stephen

38:24

King, I guarantee you there's other books that she really

38:26

liked. You could talk to her friends, you can look,

38:28

I mean, I know it's been six years, I don't

38:30

know if you still have any of her books, if

38:33

there's anyone else in your family. I'm sure there's somebody

38:35

you can talk to about your

38:37

sister's reading taste. And I'm sure that there's at

38:39

least one book that your sister was really into

38:41

that you haven't read that is much closer to your

38:44

wheelhouse. And then I think you should

38:46

read that and then you'll not only have a

38:48

fun experience reading a new book, but you can feel

38:50

closer to your sister without slogging and suffering through

38:52

a book that you hate. Again, I want to

38:54

say something very similar happened to me. My grandfather

38:56

really wanted me to read this very not

38:59

Mallory book. I don't even remember the title of it and I don't

39:01

want to say it because it's obvious, you know, I don't want to

39:03

bad talk a book on the show. But when he

39:05

died, I did reread a book that

39:07

we used to read together that we

39:09

both loved. And like there's

39:12

just no way if there's an afterlife, there's no way

39:14

that my grandfather is up there and is like, oh,

39:16

Mallory didn't read this book that I gave to

39:19

her. Like no, like the whole point is just

39:21

to feel closer to someone to keep remembering them

39:23

to continue to be able to make

39:25

good memories with their memory. You know what I

39:28

mean? So I think you should find a different

39:30

book. You can keep this book again, I'll never

39:32

give that book away even though I'm never

39:34

going to read it. So I think Bria had a

39:36

really great idea. But I do think if you want

39:38

to read a book, you should pick something else. We

39:40

are absolving you of all guilt. You don't have

39:43

to read this if you don't want to. This

39:46

is not a required thing for you. You can

39:48

leave it on yourself for the rest of forever. You

39:50

are not a book snoot. You are you don't have

39:52

to feel guilty. But man, yeah, truly

39:55

what a move. Yeah, real move. So Caitlin,

39:57

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39:59

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