You're listening to Reading Glasses, 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 on the 26 Reading Glasses, Glasses Challenge, read a genre or subgenre. You've never tried. Mallory, I need some help. I'm just letting you know. I also need your help as well. Oh. Oh, okay. Plus, we talk about how to figure out which bookstores to support and recommend literary fiction for science fiction fantasy readers. But first, Priya, what are you reading? I am reading a book that came

out a couple years ago. It is literary fiction, speculative fiction. It's called The Other Valley by

Scott Alexander Howard. It is about a town in which it's like an isolated town, but if you go to the

town right next to it, it's the exact same version of the town but 20 years ahead. And if you go the other way, it's the exact same version of the town 20 years behind. So like jumping into the future, jumping into the past, same town. And there are these people who work for the town and part of the like kind of government. And if you have a reason to go see yourself in the past or someone in the past or someone

in the future, you can get it approved and do that. And it's about this young girl. And it's kind of like just really nice, very literary fiction, very like in her head, like seeing her grow up. And she's trying to become one of those. That's where I'm at right now. she's trying to become one of these people who they basically approve your petition to like, hey, you know, I just got diagnosed with cancer, but my daughter

is pregnant. Can I go 20 years in the future to see what my grandchild looks like or whatever? Or like,

my son passed away and I'd love to go back into the past and see him one last time. And like, you can't have any interaction with them, but you're allowed to go like look at them from a distance. But obviously that causes problems. And it's just a really beautifully written prose are really nice about this like kind of awkward girl who's trying to become one of these people who makes these approvals. And I just, I'm really liking it.

Sounds great. Yeah, it's really beautiful. What are you reading? I'm reading our March smut book. Oh, what is our March Spock? I cannot, I cannot remember the name of this book ever. It's Queenie and the Crackens by Alira Anaia Siris. And it is. So for our Max Fun Drive on on readingut last year we, one of our goals was to get

Jesse Thorne to read a Y-Choose

and now we're doing it.

We're having friends of the long-time friends of the show

Jesse Thorne and Jordan Morris

on to read

this Y-Choose with a motorcycle

club full of Merman Shifters.

That's right. that's so many words

i think jesse's response was i don't understand anything in that sentence but i'm in

when i asked him to do it what an american hero jessie thorne so yeah oh if you're if you're not

familiar with the smut world, a why choose is generally

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