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. Rito. This episode, we're ticking off another box on the 2025 reading glasses glasses, classes, classes challenge.

Pick a book based on the title.

Plus, we solve a problem about reading graphic novels in public, not graphic novels, but

graphic.

Graphic, graphic novels.

Graphic, graphic novels.

And we are recommending some Hope Punk books.

But first, Brea, what are you reading?

I am listening to, you know, in our anticipated books episode, I said, I'm going to read this book.

And now I'm reading it, which is, you know, I promise I delivered.

I'm listening to Everything is Tuberculosis, the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green.

I'm still waiting for it from the library.

I got it from... I'm listening to it.

I got it from Libra FM.

Oh, our influencer arcs?

No, I just...

No, it wasn't on there.

I think I purchased it.

I bought it because I was excited about it.

The title, which I didn't know, understand until I started reading the book, is basically

John Green, who is a fiction writer, as a nonfiction writer, kind of does both.

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