You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better. I'm

Brier Grant, filmmaker and Book Devour, Mallory Omera. And I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker, and E- Reader.

This episode, we're taking off a box from the 2024 Reading Glasses, Glasses

Glasses Challenge, read a buzzy book from this year.

Plus we test out spinner rings for reading concentration and we solve a problem

about jacket copy.

That sounds like someone's copying the jacket you're wearing,

but we're talking about books,

book jacket covers, and the copy on them.

That's what we're talking about.

But first, Bria, what are you reading? I am reading what maybe

my favorite book of all time. What? I don't know. It is Beauty Land, a book I

talked about that I wanted to read by Marie Helene Bertino.

Oh and you look we both loved her last book.

Mallory you need to add yourself to the very long wait list at the library right now

Is it out yet? Yeah it's out came on January it just took me I think that long to get it from the library it's a weird fiction

slash I would say weird fiction literary fiction is where I put it in and it is about a little girl

who lives in Philadelphia but at some point she realizes that she's

different and she's like oh I'm from another planet and like it's from her

perspective and what she does is she she goes when she goes to sleep

she goes and she can like talk to the people people aliens from her planet and also

there's this fax machine in our house and she just faxes them little things like,

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