I'm B.A. Parker.

I'm Lori Lizarraga and you're listening to Code Switch.

So Lori, you and I were talking the other day and what we basically realized was that we

need help.

Yes, that we need help.

Okay, not just help generally, but we probably need that too.

Yeah, Parker, I think that that's probably right.

But in this case, for the purposes of this conversation, we need a very specific kind

of help with books.

Okay, let me set the scene.

So earlier this month, Lori and I started rattling off the books we have in our desk right

now.

Yes, one does.

And what we realized is our reading lists are decidedly unsumory, like heavy.

So when I think summer reading, I'm laying horizontal.

There's a beach.

Maybe there's even a mighti.

The book is the girl in that scene reading?

Gone girl, perhaps, or seven days in June probably, right?

Not in the short book title here because we don't want y'all coming for us.

But when we started talking about what we've actually been reading the summer, between

us, there was a lot of very heavy, very dense, often very depressing literature.

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