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Mallory Omera and I'm Bria Grant filmmaker and e-reader. Wow did you hear the

way I said my name sound like Breyer Breyer, Breyer Grant?

Breyer, oh Breyer Grant, that's how you say it. Where I'm from. This episode, we're giving tips on managing your

ever growing, very long TBR. We're solving a problem about buying too many books and we're

recommending some sci-fi books with space archaeology.

My first, Brio, what do you read?

I'm reading a book that you recommended to me, I think a couple years ago, it's been

on my list for a second. It is called The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta?

Oh yeah, this is Hot Glasser Book.

I think you just saw it where you're like, I think you'd like this, because it involves magical baking. You love a magical food

book. Yeah it's about this teenager named Sid who works at a local bakery in

Austin and goes through a breakup and the breakup causes Sid to first

makes these brownies right there's these brownies and Sid makes these brownies

and notices that everyone who eats the brownies in the bakery also breaks up.

And then Sid realizes, oh, I have a magical baking skill and starts trying to make specific foods

and baked goods that will achieve specific things for people in

SID's life. SID has no pronouns at the point where I'm reading it. I don't know if by the end,

I don't know what this journey is, so is a queer love story for those who love that which is I feel like a lot of the glassers with magical realism and also there is a love story not just like since breakup but there's a person who comes into the bakery

a lot and there's a cute little romance happening with that person who's like a

bike delivery baked goods person which is the most Austin job I've ever heard in my

life and I just texted to my friends from Austin and I was like

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