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 Bray Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader. This episode we're talking about

YA books and interviewing author and literary agent Eric Smith. But first what are you

reading Bria? I read a, I'm doing a lot of research

reading right now which none of those books I felt like are worth sharing so

far, but they are helpful to me.

But I, last night I took a break from that

and I read a book that was suggested on our trans episode

by my cousin called Gumballs.

It's a graphic novel by Aaron Nations.

And it's super great.

It's great for a lot of reasons, but if you,

for people, so he goes through the process of like,

this is what it's like to you know get on hormones and like these are the changes of your body

But it's all done in graphic novel like cute form so it's like you know being like, why do I smell bad?

And like, you know, things like that.

Because you're going through another puberty.

Going through second puberty, basically,

like a different puberty.

And so he talks about that transition.

He also talks about like working in a grocery store. And a lot of things that happen when you're

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