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'Meara.

And I'm Brea Grant, Filmer, here, and E-Reader.

This episode, we're revealing the secrets behind talking about books on the internet.

Ooh, spicy episode.

What is the, what should be your policy?

What should you be doing?

Plus, we solve a problem about a page falling out while reading a borrow a book.

It's from me.

That's like, do you know that email's for me?

Sorry, folks.

Bria gets top priority.

Brea gets entrance to the front of the line.

And we recommend ocean-related books for an aquarium book club. So cute. God, I love it. But first, Brea, what are you reading? So you and I went to the Rip Bottis. We did. A couple weeks ago. And I picked up a comic book, an erotic comic book anthology, unlike any other. It is called My Monster

Boyfriend. The editor is C. Spike Trotman, and it is a bunch of different comics and anthology

style, a bunch of different comics by a bunch of different writers, all with monster boyfriends in them,

and it's erotica. It's very erotica. I did not know how erotic it was going to be, and it's queer, but it's very erotica i was not i did not know how erotica it was going to be and it's queer

but it's also monsters it's it's queer it's all it's it's straight it's everything it runs the gamut

everything from do you want a little robot with a robot dick what what do you want a um a harpy

that's the first one it's a harpy um i read, read one about this guy who's, like, stuck under, like, inside, like, this, like, mountain situation with a dragon.

Here it starts having sex with this dragon. I'm sorry. I'm stuck on robot with a tiny robot dig. That might be the funniest thing I've ever heard of my whole life. It's pretty wild. The robot wants a face because he wants to be able to kiss his girlfriend.

It's like Bicentennial Man. Is that the plot to Bicentennial Man? I'm pretty sure the plot, which is, remember, I don't know why this movie goes up on this show so much. But it's like...

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