You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and

literary life designed to help you read better. I'm author, filmmaker, and

book devour, Mallory Omera. And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader. This episode we're talking about

Space Books, hooray and interviewing Madeline Rue. But first what are you

reading Bria? I'm reading, not a space book, but something that you might...

That's actually probably good for this episode.

Because we're going to be talking about so many spacebooks.

I know, I'm not reading anything.

It's funny, it's's like you know horror month

Hell fucking yeah it is I'm reading a book is not a horror book it's it's October

here's the thing I know it's horror month and we're like talking about a lot of scary books and stuff but I read scary books all year and I do scary stuff all year.

It's true. I'm going to live a scary life. I feel like that's the hardest part for October is like because I was

decorating my apartment for Halloween and my roommate was like Hillary but our

apartment is already covered in a monster stuff all year round. It's hard to like amp it up

for October. I don't know I'm not going to make it more

spooky like just because it's October. I'm reading a non-fiction book called

Slim how algae created us plague us fiction book called Slim, How Algy Created Us, Plag Us, Algy Created Us, Plag Us, and

might just might save us by Ruth Kessinger.

I saw this at the library the other day and I was going to put on my

holds list. It's really good. I am maybe three-fourths of the way through. I

it's such not a book I would normally pick up. I know it's too gross for you.

No it's not that gross. It's not gross at all, actually. It's not gross.

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