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 finally doing it.

We're talking about Amish romance novels.

We're definitely doing it.

You put a cow noise or something?

What's an Amish noise?

It's like a buggy weave-ass butter-churning.

We've dedicated a whole episode, so hold on to your bonnets.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I finished a book, Busy Busy Busy Book Mallory.

I finished a book called Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson.

This is a great literary fiction book.

I really enjoyed it.

I think it's going to be on a lot of best stubs of the year, possibly my own.

Basically, this woman in present-day passes away and she leaves for her children a black

cake and a...

Like, a baked good.

A baked good, which is basically like from what I under, because there's a lot of talk

of cake and of black cake and I'm making the black cake.

So if you're a person who loves recipes and knowing about food origins and things like

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