You are 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 the ways our reading tastes change over time and what

you should do about it.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I just finished a book.

This is an author I pre-order because he writes some of my favorite sci-fi.

There are always books that always end up on my top.

I think I know exactly what.

Upgrade by Blake Crouch.

Blake Crouch.

And because here's the thing I always end up talking about his books to people where

I'm like, I start to like, they have these philosophical questions and that I bring

up in conversation.

I'm like, I'm reading this book, like, what do you think is the answer here?

So essentially, this book, it's about this guy who, his mother, basically, they're living

in a time in which you can make change to genetics, right?

And you can make it in within a person already living so you can change someone's genetics,

you can change animal genetics or whatever.

And there's this guy and his mother did something that changed the genetics of, oh, like some

sort of pest or insect.

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