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I'm author and book to power, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're tackling one of one of the, let me check that stuff off of your Reading

Glasses Challenge 2022, we're tackling the self-help book.

First, what are you reading, Bria?

I'm reading a book that was recommended by multiple people to me.

So I felt I had to read it.

It came out last year.

It's called Riders and Lovers by Lily King.

Did you read this?

No, I feel like I've read another, oh, I think she wrote this for you.

She wrote the, and the tears of my father or something or rain, something that she wrote

a really, really good book, Father of the Rain by Lily King, wicked fucking good.

So this, I've been excited to read this book.

It is so great so far.

I can't put it down.

Now I'm going to make a little confession first.

I was reading it and I thought, wow, what a great memoir this person is writing.

I love this essay filled memoir, and then at some point I looked it up and I was like,

this book is fiction.

It just, well, what's it about?

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