You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better.

I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory

O'Mara. And I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader. This episode we're

talking about books to help you get your shit together and interviewing author and

podcaster Gabby Dunn. But first... What are you reading?

I just started reading and I should have read this a long time ago because it's so up my

alley autonomous by Annaleen newest. Oh yeah it was a guest on the show. I love her podcast and which is called

Our opinions are correct which she does with Charlie Jane Andrews and I just had never a book and my brother got it for me for my

birthday and it's a physical book so you know it takes me forever to actually read a physical book

because I'm me and it didn't come from the library. It's not my e-reader, so I forget about it.

But I love it.

It's about, it's set about 100, 150 years in the future

in a time when patents are really important and drug patents and there's about a woman who is a patent

pirate essentially so she pirates drug patents and makes drugs like illegal copies of that drug.

Oh, that's incredible.

Yeah, but she puts one on the market that may be having adverse effects. It's like one that makes people work a lot and

people instead start having like dying from it because they like literally they're

like I'm gonna play the piano till I die, like stuff like that.

So that's how far I am into it, and there's also someone chasing her trying to find her.

It's some sort of, I guess, Army man. I don't, he's some sort of, he's like private eye army man.

This is not a good description, and a robot chasing her around.

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