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 talking about, hey, we're celebrating Mallory's new book, Daughter of Daring, and we're talking about

history books, which is that's what it is. It is a book about history. Plus, we test out a candle

warmer. Because all you all told us that we need to get on the candle warmer train. I don't

know if we agree. And we saw a reader problem about pre-orders. But first, Brea, what are you reading? I am reading.

You know, we did our event, and I said something about how I used to read a lot of space books,

and I don't read them anymore.

Well, guess what?

I'm reading a space book.

I returned.

I'm reading The Deep Sky by Yumi Katase.

It is, oh, the little blurb says enthralling, and I was going to say thrilling. It's science fiction, obviously. It's about a group, basically all the world's nations come together, if you can believe it,

to send a long voyage spaceship to colonize another planet.

And they decide at some point that they only want, they have all these candidates and these like 12 year olds submit to become, to be the candidates,

because I think they send them when they're like 18. So they go and they like compete for years

against each other in deciding who gets to come and it's like thousands and then they whittle it

down to 80. And they only allow people who can bear children because they realized about halfway

through they needed them to start bearing children so they could populate.

Oh yeah, they need more.

Yeah.

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