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 to power, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about balancing reading with other hobbies, it's important

to be well-rounded.

What to do when a bookstore sends you two copies of the same book and recommending books

to prepare for spooky season, it's on its way.

Mallory is ready, Mallory is wearing a witch hat as we speak, one of those little pointy

witch hats with a buckle.

Mallory is recording this from inside a cauldron, she's ready to go.

But first Bria, what are you reading?

I'm reading a book that you also read, Sloan Women by Victor LaVelle.

Big glass her favorite for the year.

I keep saying Loan Woman, but it's multiple women, which it's true, there are multiple women.

I also told someone, I'm reading a Western, and then I just looked at no one's calling

it a Western.

Some people might be, but it is though.

It's a magical, it's a speculative fiction Western, I guess.

It is set in 1915 and it's about this woman who is fleeing California and she goes to Montana

and she becomes a homesteader, which are those people who they would give you land if

you would stay on the land and make it a home.

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