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 am Bray Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, we're taking off another box

from the 2020 Reading Glass Challenge

for Reading Glasses.

That's a joke from an old episode. Sorry if you didn't listen to it.

The challenge is read a book by a woman of color. But first, what are you reading,

Bria? I am reading the sequel.

Just started it last night to Dread Nation,

Deathless Divide by Justino Ireland.

You know I loved Dread Nation. I know you did loved Dread Nation.

Dread Nation was a book that came out.

Did it come out last year?

No.

Two years ago?

No, it was at least two years ago.

Yeah. It was, I think it was on my top books of the year.

It was, it's about, it is a alternate history in which the Civil War is cut short because zombies invade America, maybe the world, I actually don't know,

and they free the slaves with the caveat that they all must go fight zombies in these slave only zombie fighting groups.

And it was great.

It's, it is, it's YA, sort of historical alternate fiction.

It has romance things happening, but also has these really, really cool

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