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 Omera.

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

This episode, we're talking about tracking our books

and interviewing translator and podgaster, Marcia Links Quayley.

But first, what are you reading, Brea?

I'm reading a book.

So when we first started this podcast,

Amber Benson came on and talked about her comic.

But she's also a writer and a

filmmaker and an actress and all sorts of things. We love Amber.

And then she's like, oh I love this book,

Girl by Blake Nelson, I'm going to send it to you.

This is how long it takes me to get to a physical book. Now I'm reading it.

Freaked it open and like a spider crawled out.

It was like, I was like, oh I should read this. Because it's about a, I'm not very far, far I just started about a teen girl in high school

sort of seems suburban but I'm not it must be suburban in the 90s in the Pacific Northwest

Oh yeah uh-huh.

And so, and who's like interested in music and kind of on the edge of like,

what is my identity from like having to do with like people who are super preppy but then also like I think I'm

into Grunge like that era where she's trying to figure that out it's written from her

point of view so it's like very I'm not super far but it's

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