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 Brea Grant filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're giving out tips on making a TBR list for the very first time.

The very first time.

Plus, we solve a book tech problem about an ex having access to your Libby account

and recommend sapphic romances with trans protectants.

But first, what are you reading, Briah?

I just finished a book that's going to be one of my best of the year.

I was taken by this book.

It's the strange case of Jane O by Karen Thompson Walker.

Someone just recommended this to me.

I think it was Helena.

Oh, Helena, I have the same taste.

That makes sense.

Karen Thompson Walker wrote a couple books I liked, The Age of Miracles and the Dreamers,

both sort of our world but different sort of things. This is two, it's epistolary. It's told

from the point of view of a therapist who starts seeing this woman who's having these strange

episodes where suddenly, so she disappears for like a few days and they don't know where she went

and then she just appeared in like Prospect Park and they think she was in some sort of disassociative state.

And she has no memory of where she's been.

Weird thing about her is when she starts seeing this, I think he's, I was a psychiatrist.

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