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designed to help you read better. I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour

Mallory O'Mara. I'm Brea Grant, actress filmmaker and e-reader. This episode we're talking about what reading does to your brain.

But first what are you reading Brit?

Now I'm reading a book that you gave me. Which book? It's called They Can't

Kill us until they kill us by Hanif Adurkeeb.

A Durakee. I like that book. It's great. I have been reading, I've been needing to read some non-fiction and

then I'm doing a lot with music right now because I'm in in post-production for my movie and I'm

Working with my composer a lot and I've been thinking about music a lot and so I saw this on my shelf and I was like what a perfect book to start reading and like really think about it. It's really great. It seems I'm probably about only a third of the way through it or something, but it's essays about various bands,

specifically bands, so everything from like the weekend to Carly Ray Jempson to No Facts,

but then also about like music scenes, which I think is really interesting and as a person

was really involved in a music scene at one point in her life I thought that was interesting

because the author also has backgrounds in like the punk world. It's great. It's like both like the

feelings of things, the politics of things, like it's a really smartly written look at music and music in like a broader like a broader take on music which is

really interesting because I can't just read music reviews I'm just not interested but this is like such a great way to look at the

music world and look at bands and like a broader perspective of class, race, scenes, fame, and just like, there was one whole chapter just on how

much fun Carly Ray Jepson is and how you want to go hang out with her and go to a show

and like make out.

And I was like, that's cute.

Like it's just like fun, fun stuff.

Yeah, I really like that book.

One of my favorite essays in there was about how much she loves Bruce Springsteen.

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