You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better.

I'm author and Bookt of Hour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're discussing whether or not readers can be too picky, testing out

a book-tracking spreadsheet and recommending queer sci-fi, a subject that we all love.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

So I'm reading, again, Reading Glasses, two-way street.

I found out about a book that I wasn't really aware of, a book that just came out this

year because it was on the Glacier's Top picks.

It's the mimicking of known successes by Malka and Older, who Mallory pointed out to

me wrote in Fomocracy, which is a book I really liked.

I didn't realize that.

And I just have to say, I really am enjoying this book.

I learned about it from the Glaciers, again.

I had seen the cover and I thought this is like a YA book.

I don't know what I thought this was.

It is a kind of weird cover.

Yeah, I didn't know what it was, but instead, it's a cozy murder mystery on another planet.

Whoa!

It's a cozy sci-fi murder mystery.

I do not know that.

Yeah.

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