You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Brea Grant filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're making the case for reading three-star books.

Are we making that case?

Someone's making a case. So we're talking about it. We're going to debate for reading three-star books. Are we making that case? Someone's making the case.

So we're talking about it.

We're talking about the case.

We're going to debate about it.

All right.

We're debating the case for three-star reads.

Plus, we solve a problem about a harmful book in your library, and we recommend books

where typography is part of the plot.

But first, Brea, what are you reading? I'm going to talk about a 2025 book. Ooh! I read one during the holiday break that was, it was an arc.

I rarely talk about arcs, but it's coming out.

By the time this comes out, it comes out in like two weeks,

and people are going to want to be able to it.

It's a playbook, isn't it?

No, it's great. It takes place in Florida Mallory, so it's already designed for you.

It is about girls who got pregnant. It's in the 70s. It's about girls who get pregnant out of wedlock and they get sent to this sort of like home for wayward girls.

Everything is like very girly and pink and they're on these strict diets and they're basically hidden away in secret until they had these babies and then shipped back to their

normal lives but while there one of them the bookmobile comes this is the greatest thing

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