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 Rhea Grant-Tillmaker and E. Reader.

This episode, we're looking over our 2021 in Reading and talking about our 2021 Reading

Challenge and what we did for all of those challenges.

Hopefully, you joined us for those.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I've created a winter tradition of sorts where I, last year, I listened to the first

Simon Snow book by Rambo Rao, and now I'm listening to the second one.

I'm listening to Wayward Sun by Rambo Rao.

Rao, and if people don't know this, it's basically queer Harry Potter, but it starts

kind of after Harry Potter.

It's not Harry Potter.

It's obviously its own world, but it is a little bit of a take on Harry Potter, but also

its own universe, and it sort of started out as Harry Potter fanfiction, right?

Actually, it started out.

There was a book called Fan Girl, and the girl in it was a fan of the series, but it was

a fake series, and then Rambo Rao just was like, I'm going to write this series that she's

a fan of.

So it was like fanfiction, fanfiction?

Yeah, kind of.

Well, it's basically like, it's like a meta, like a meta world or something, like the

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