You're listening to reading glasses, a show about

or literary life designed to help you read better. I'm author and book to power

Mallory Almera. And I'm Bria Grant filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode we're debating at one point a bushy book

evolves into a modern classic.

Like a Pokemon.

Plus we're going to solve a problem about book dumping and recommend books set in Austria.

That don't have to do with World War II.

Wow.

Very specific.

But you know we love it. But first, Briaria what are you reading? I just finished a book speaking of buzzy books called someone you can build a nest in by John Wiswell is a buzzy one.

It's real buzzy. Good for October. Good for the Halloween season. Is it scary? Is it scary?

It's more creepy than no it's not even that creepy. You know what I bet it's scary to some people.

Yeah for some people but it's not like super

shit your pants. A conditional chilly? It is about a shape shifter. Oh. Uh-huh. So she can like, and I'm saying she, but she can like and I'm saying she but she can basically take anything around her and like put it into her body and like herbie and look like anything like what?

Kirby? It'll be like Kirby. I actually kept thinking about Kirby while reading it.

She just like a hope.

And she will like, you know, kill someone and then take their bones and make them into limbs and become

like a human and then like, but also, but their bones don't have to be in order or anything like you know like

she also like has their lungs at the bottom of her foot just in case she needs like a little

sack or something like she's um so she's all purse, it's a lung. And it's shown from her perspective, which I love. So it's really interesting, but these hunters come after her and then she's hurt and then she meets a nice young woman who nurses her back to health

who's a human who is sexy when she finds the shape shifter whose name is

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