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 testing out the best way to get stickers off of books, something

we've done in the past, but we're trying it again with new, new methods.

Yes, we're solving a stinky book problem.

I won't get into it.

And recommending cyberpunk books.

But Various, what are you reading, Bria?

I'm doing a little back list from last year, not that much of a back list book.

I was listening to, I just finished listening to, I'm glad my mom died, Regenette McCurdy.

I had not read it.

I had not read it.

This book, wow, talk about content warnings.

I loved every minute of this book.

I, you know, I'm too old for I Carly or Sam and Kat, which Jeanette McCurdy was in,

but basically all you need to know is that Jeanette McCurdy was a star on Nickelodeon.

She's a child actor, and it's all about how her mother pushed her into that at age six.

And she, her mother also pushed her into an eating disorder, body image issues.

I mean, all sorts of things.

I mean, this is a very, very dark book, but Jeanette McCurdy is very funny.

So it's like a very interesting read, because she's like super self-aware of like how fucked

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