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 taking off another box from the 2025 Reading Glass, Glasses, Glasses Challenge, read an award-winning book by an author of color plus we test out a book cart which we're

looking at right now that the wind may knock over and give tips on reading beaten up paperback

books what are you reading brew i am reading a book that I've been looking

forward to reading. It is called Sky Daddy. Oh, and I know you told me to read this. I have it on my,

I have it on my Libby, TBR. It's by Cape Folk. Cape Folk put out a book of short stories last year that I

really, really liked, or a couple years ago, called Out There. It was one of my favorite books from whatever year that was. I can't remember. But this is

about a woman who really, in our heart of hearts, believes that she is meant to marry a plane.

I mean, having seen dating apps, a plane would seem like a good alternative. Yeah, yeah. And she spends all of her money

going on planes and flying. And she works as a content moderator and she gets invited to a vision

boarding night with one of her coworkers and things start happening because she makes this vision

board and she gets convinced. Wow. She is going to get to marry this plane. And it is so wonderful.

It really scratched an

itch for me of like, like, you know, obviously she's not the, you know, it's not a normal wish,

but you kind of, you want it to happen for her even though. It's like Lolita, but with a plane

less problematic. Oh yeah, but, but oh, it does tell you this in the description. So she is going to marry a

plane, but in when they get married, it will go down and it will be a fiery plane crash. So she will

die in the plane crash and that means the plane is in love with her. Has she started talking to

Nathan Fielder yet? What are you reading? I just finished listening to a new audio book that feels kind of like research for our other show reading smut.

It's called Why We Love and Hate Twilight by Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher.

And the narrator is Amanda Friday.

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