You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author and booktivower, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

South by Southwest filmmaker, what?

This episode, it's a mega episode. We're solving all your

book club club. Y'all have been writing in with your book club limous and we're a lot of book club

problems. Mallory's been compiling. Yep. And guess what? What Mallory mostly does is compile things.

Lots of compiling. Lots of compiling. And we decided to do one big mega episode with special guest, Chelsea Stardust who runs a book club called The Losers Book Club, which I'm looking enough to be a member of. And I always talk about her on the show. We've always like, we should have Chelsea on. We should have Chelsea on to talk about it because it's a nine-year-long book club. Chelsea started her book club the same year we started reading glasses. Wow. That's pretty amazing. And it has been going strong for that amount of time. And I feel like, and she has so many great answers for all of your book club dilemmas. But first, Brea, what are you reading? Okay. So because I'm doing a lot right now, okay. I'm just going to make a confession right now, is that I'm often reading

a smut book. And it's so weird that I don't talk about it on the show, because I'm like, well, I shouldn't talk about that on the show, even though we have an entire show. Y'all know I'm reading these books. You know they're present in my life. I mean, often I'm just reading the one for the show. But sometimes Mallory tells me about one and I say, okay, that's

interesting. And I go buy it. And then late at night at two in the morning when I can't sleep,

I go, what is that's interesting. And I go buy it. And then late at night at two in the morning when I can't sleep, I go,

what is going to make me fall asleep? I know. A nice smut book. And it works like a charm.

Like something about it. It is like, I restart reading it and I'm like, oh yeah, I'm very relaxed

about these two people who just really want to have sex with each other. It's because it's the formula. It's like, it's comforting. The formula is easy. It's really nice. So I started reading a book you loved and gave to one of our friends and he loved it too. I'm reading Willing Pray. Yes. By Allie Oliander. Oh my God. This book made me feral. This book, okay,

Mallory's already talking about it on the show,

but it is about a woman.

It's on two perspectives.

The man of the woman and the woman is hired to go to this man's house.

To live at this man's house.

To live at this man's house.

And she wears this little watch and suddenly it will go off and gives her 10 minutes and there's a 10 minute countdown.

And she has to run into the woods behind his house so he can hunt her.

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