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 Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about what to do with those books.

You got for Christmas that you might not want.

Like you're sitting at your house and you're like, I'm going to do a spring cleaning.

I'm going to get my place looking spiffy and there's all these books that you don't

know what to do with.

Well, guess what?

We're going to help you out and make your clean those shelves off a little bit.

We got you.

The first, what do you read, Bria?

I just finished a little book last night.

I had no idea that Nettie Corpore had written a little memoir.

I keep saying little because it actually is very short.

It's only like a hundred pages.

So it's Nettie Corpore.

It's called Broken Places and Outer Spaces, Finding Creativity in the Unexpected.

And I saw something in an interview with her or something and she was like, oh, I wrote

this little memoir of her life because when she was in college, so she had scoliosis

and she had a surgery, and I'm not giving anything away.

She had a surgery to fix the scoliosis and it was like, there's like 99% chance you're

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