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 Graham Filinker and E- Reader.

This episode, we've got a new genre alert.

There it is for Horomance. Horomance. Horomance. Horomance. Horomance. Horomance. Horomance.

Horomance. Plus we're talking about book tech for hot tub reading, wow, one near and dear to my heart, and

solving a problem about breaking the spines of library books.

But first, Brio, what are you reading? Should it be allowed? I am reading, I can't remember if I talked about this in our non-binary

episode. I don't know if I did. I have been reading in the mornings at like a comic book that I just like keep downstairs a graphic novel I'm reading gender queer by my a co-bib.

Ooh very famous book.

Off-air I was just telling you that I watched all the Oscar docks which was really fun and

Mallory's boyfriend worked on one of them which was great but there's also one called

the ABCs of book banning and it all is all about books that have been

banned and this is the most banned book currently gender queer.

Yeah it's making people pretty mad. They're so mad about this book about this coming of age where this person,

where Maya, so it is an auto biographical graphic novel and it's just about coming of age not being sure of what your

gender is exploring your sexuality it's a very cute book so far.

Like I find it like very charming,

like to see everything that Maya has been through and also,

you know, like high school relationships and like maybe a crush maybe not a crush and like what it means to like not know if like oh maybe I'm a lesbian maybe I'm maybe I'm bisexual maybe I'm a

it's a very great look at that if you have never experienced that even if you have if you have or haven't and it's just a really, the art is really cute.

Like it's very like, it feels like very accessible, if that makes sense.

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