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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 devourer, Mallory O'Mara. And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader. In this episode, we're talking about why we read. Pretty big one. It actually is. Like, when you propose this topic, I thought, I know why I read, but it really made me examine that. Plus, we give advice on figuring out if a book is or is not for you, or if it's just like a bad audio book narrator. Yeah, pretty pertinent information. Yeah, people, we, in my book club, we talk about the narrator so much. And we recommend books about religion gone wrong. But first, Brea, what are you reading?

Okay, you know I'm on my one comic book a month thing right now. And I'm reading one graphic novel. I'm reading right now Spectators by Brian K. Vaughn. Nico Henrichen did the Henrichin, Henrichsham. Henry Schoam. Is the illustrator? I don't know how you say it. This is, it's a beautiful graphic novel that was gifted to me.

It is about a woman who dies and then she meets up with this man and they're both ghosts and they go and watch people have sex, but also they like. I have to read this. Yeah, it's really good. It's like the opposite of sex criminals. Yeah, yeah, because these are just ghosts, like, who are basically just voyeurs. Wow. And, like, and they kind of discuss sex and violence and the world, like, violence happening in the world, but then they also discuss sex and they, it's just a really fascinating book. It is sexy. I will say it is porny a little bit, but also, like, it's very thoughtful. I'm really enjoying it about halfway through. Oh, I'm totally reading this. And it has really great art. The art is really beautiful. But a little bit sexy, which is nice. I'm like super loving it. It's just like sex ghosts, I guess, is the book. I am, I, that's all I needed to hear.

Literally, all you had to say was sex ghosts and I am in.

What are you reading?

I am reading a book that is fucking wild.

This was, it was one of my most anticipated books and I anticipated it, well, spoiled milk by Avery Koran.

And this is a queer historical horror.

It takes place in a 1920s boarding school for girls. And it opens up. This is not a spoiler.

I'm one of like the it girl of the group. I haven't seen mean girls. Which one's the big mean girl?

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