Reading with Gina Lucia | Bleeding Metal Podcast 2.16

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Gina Lucia runs a Youtube channel with the related #bookstagram and discord community around books and reading. However, unlike most resources about reading, she doesn't strictly encourage doing it more and more. Instead, her videos are analytical about the psychology of reading and can even be critical of a society that puts people who read more books on a pedestal.

Gina gives advice about reading but most importantly about taking the pressure off this activity. Another important focus to her is that reading is inclusive and accessible to everyone. We loved talking to her about her journey to becoming a YouTuber as well as inquiring about her taste in music and games.

Recorded on January 19th, 2023.

01:02 Gina's introduction
10:27 Gina Lucia Reads on Youtube
18:24 The snobbery around reading
26:42 Reading a lot as a social virtue
32:17 Reading and consuming stories through other media
42:17 Gina's Readathons
48:51 Music we're listening to right now

Shownotes:

• Gina Lucia's website with reading resources and links to all her socials
• Gina's video "Will AI Art Change the Book Industry?"
• Gina's video "Why Audiobooks Count as Reading"
• Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast episode about audio descriptions called "A Thousand Words"

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Episode edited by Kiki.
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Intro music by Savvier Nelson with vocals from PERSONA-singer Jelena Dobric.