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 talking about the term well-read.

And we've got special guest, Rebecca Shedsky, on the show for the first time she's such a banger of staff over at book riot wow she joined us she has so much to say it was such an interesting conversation plus we recommend fiction books for nonfiction readers and solve a problem about putting books down when you want to just read them and not do laundry. Brea, but first, what are you reading? I'm reading a book that you've been telling me for a long time I need to read, so I am reading it. It is The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thor. Isn't it so good? It's so good. I read, Margot's got Money Troubles and was like, this is the best book I've

ever read. And then you were like, how have you not read The Knockout Queen? And a girl who goes to my dog park also was reading it one day and I was like, oh, I can't read that book. It is so, God, she's such a good writer. Her writing is so good. It's just so easy. You just like slip in. it's like slipping into a warm bath.

You start reading, you're like,

wow, I'm so comfortable with what,

wherever she's taking me like,

I'm on, so easy. You just like slip in. It's like slipping into a warm bath. You start reading. You're like,

wow, I'm so comfortable with what, wherever she's taking me like, I'm on the journey in the bathtub.

That metaphor didn't work very well. But basically it's about this kid in high school who he's a young,

like gay kid, not out, sort of, not not out at high school, but like people sort of know.

And then he has this next door neighbor whose name is Bunny.

And he kind of is a little bit obsessed with her at first in this weird sort of distant way.

And she's super, she's very tall and she plays volleyball.

And they become friends.

And then it's just kind of like what happens in high school.

And essentially he has been meeting men online via Craigslist and places for these like sexual

encounters.

And she falls in love with someone and things kind of go poorly in both scenarios and then

something sort of bad happens.

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