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 by trans authors and interviewing author, Holly Mahalom.

But first...

What are you reading, Bria? I started reading a book called

Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Ellis Dayton. It is a book that was on The

Guardians top 2018 sci-fi books.

I'm really enjoying it so far.

Basically, it's about, I thought it was a novel,

but I think it's gonna end up being kind of short stories set in the same universe if that makes interesting

So it's about a world in which

It's a very near future world for us, but we can, you can modify your body using technology, right?

So, oh, I, you know, I have a heart, this is someone else's heart that, but also it has like some

robots in it or something like that right and then as it

progresses people can modify their bodies more and more so that oh instead of

hands I have flippers you know like things like that so but it goes through time as far as what I can tell but I

sort of have been going through the like 2018 top science fiction books people are

talking about and reading those and this is a bit on my list.

So... Sounds good.

Yeah, yeah. I'm excited to see where it ends up. What are you reading, Mallory?

I've been sort of on the opposite end of the spectrum as now I'm reading 2019

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