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You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show

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about book culture and literary life designed

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to help you read better. I'm author

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and book devourer Mallory O'Mara. And I'm

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Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader. This episode

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we're talking about our most anticipated books

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for June and July. Good

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lord there's a lot of them. There's so

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many. Get ready. This is a

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great and fun episode brought to you by the

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Maximum Fun subscribers. They made sure that this was

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in the main feed. Plus

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we are discussing books that we love that

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aren't in our wheelhouse. First Bria, what are you

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reading? I am reading something that is only kind of

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a book and I thought that it would be important

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to talk about it. So I

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got turned on, actually someone told me about

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this, but some of the

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glassers had mentioned webtoons and Wattpad and

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that world and I am not really

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in that world. But someone

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was like, oh, you should really check

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out Stagtown. The creator's name is Punco

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and it's basically a horror comic

1:03

that is designed to read through

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this app, this webtoon app. You

1:08

can read it online as well. But

1:10

it's great on your phone. It's like

1:12

literally designed for scrolling. There's like a

1:14

lot of use of a negative space

1:17

on your phone. I am addicted to

1:19

this. I don't know how many episodes

1:21

or how many issues. There's so many

1:23

issues. Probably a hundred in or something.

1:26

I got a lot to go. It's very exciting. And you

1:28

could just have it on your phone. I

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know the glassers are going to have trouble with this because it's

1:32

hard to log. You can't just go on to

1:34

your goodreads and say you read this or maybe you

1:36

can't. I haven't looked actually. Anyway, the synopsis, Mallory, you

1:39

would love this. It

1:41

is about, okay, this girl Frankie goes

1:43

back to her hometown where she grew

1:45

up and weird

1:47

stuff starts happening. Weird horror stuff. All of

1:50

a sudden. We do love this exact trope.

1:52

We love this. This is

1:54

something that's for both of us. All

1:56

of a sudden, like, for example, this Guy's

1:59

like, was that Karen? yesterday and you like,

2:01

It's like a surveillance camera and the next

2:03

day there's literally like hundreds of surveillance cameras

2:05

everywhere. Oh My. God. at one point, like

2:08

and it's it's serialize. So like, like Sickening

2:10

has to go through that and drama. And

2:12

in one point, like the door to her

2:14

apartment disappears and someone is on the outside

2:17

and the window also disappeared and her. Entire

2:19

apartment. His just disappear. There's no more doors. Know

2:21

more, When doesn't? There's not. There's another. That that's

2:23

like. This Like a very

2:25

nice Resident Evil. There's like a. Video. Game where you

2:27

have something is like that. You have to break out of the

2:29

room. The I mean it's so good and also

2:32

you can't leave he can't. Least I can manage

2:34

this mystery about a carousel that's going on in.

2:36

also a very early or something happens to a

2:38

guy lives in her apartment. That becomes a big

2:40

mystery as well. It is so good is so

2:43

addicting. I guess it came out a couple of

2:45

years ago but a rally know how I figure

2:47

out how to log this glimpse or people are

2:49

going when l but it's Sad Town by Tom

2:51

Car and I am just and loving it is

2:53

a it is. It is one of the best

2:55

comics I've read in a really long time. They

2:59

also. Yeah, when you're eating I just finished

3:01

a book about I think the glasses are going

3:03

are really really love as we were just talking

3:05

about before we started recording. Be when I are

3:08

both into a frantic. Oh god we have a

3:10

start reading twenty twenty four books. I picked

3:12

this up. his are very. Very soon I think about a

3:14

few weeks so put it on hold right now with

3:16

the middle. Grade fantasy book called Puzzle

3:18

Heart by Generalise and it's got

3:20

so many glass or things it's

3:22

got said. He and Houses got

3:24

a non binary protagonist. It's got

3:26

family drama. It's got puzzles. It's

3:28

about this little kid and they

3:30

live with their father and they're

3:32

They're kind of a strange from

3:34

the rest of their family. Their

3:36

grandmother lives in this like incredible

3:38

house that. Was supposed to be in a

3:41

are being be spent. In that the grandmother

3:43

built this house but their grandfather she's the

3:45

one is really great puzzles. So grandfather was

3:47

like this incredible architect and they created this

3:49

massive house that basically is a puzzle that

3:51

you have to solve and all the i

3:53

guess all beings that leg you press this

3:55

button and this happens over here and this

3:57

unlock this other things and it was the

3:59

great dream to build this incredible house called

4:01

Puzzle Heart and their an open. It as a

4:04

bed and breakfasts and then the grandfather died in it

4:06

like. Broke the grandmother's heart. she sent her

4:08

son away which is the protagonists. Father and

4:10

she's never even met her grand kid take

4:12

the greatest ever been to this house but

4:14

the dad is really depressed than having a

4:16

hard time and this kid is determined is

4:18

like array If I can just guess my

4:20

dad and my grandmother speaking gather and get

4:22

my dad back in this house my wholesale

4:24

he'll whole family and everything will be okay

4:26

and they make this trip to go to

4:28

Puzzle Hearts and it doesn't work. The grandmother

4:30

still mad and angry and she is revealed

4:32

that she's actually going to be selling this.

4:34

House very soon. Only she has a realize

4:36

that the houses said the it now and the. Want

4:39

to be sold on? traps? Everybody inside

4:41

of it and the only way that everybody

4:43

can get out his by solving the great

4:45

puzzle of the house. and it was all

4:47

about like Greece in family stuff and family

4:49

dynamics. But also it's just so fun because

4:51

it's this. The protagonist and this friend that

4:53

they make are going through the house in

4:55

like every room and the houses themed like

4:57

there's an ocean room in a forest room

4:59

and like one room where they have to

5:01

final the different nuts in the forests room

5:03

and match them up with the places that

5:06

they go to unlock another thing in another

5:08

room. So it's just it's super fun. I

5:10

read it all. In one night. It's

5:12

super cute and is just got a

5:14

lot of really fun things that closers

5:16

like ah so if you're looking for

5:18

just like a fun late spring read

5:20

that comes out very sounds that puzzle

5:22

heart by generalise and I am reading

5:24

Stag Pounds by Parker. Through.

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mama cheers and a listener feedback folks we're still

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getting so much feedback about the maximum fun drive

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and i do want to say right off the

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top we've been getting some emails from people who

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are like i haven't got my an extra stuff

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yet there's two things that you get okay you

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get an email for maximum fun when you sign

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up to become a member and maximum fun.org such

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joints and that's how you get all your bonus

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content they get they send you an email that

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gives you all of the instructions you need to

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get the bonus contents but if you want to

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get invited to the slack channel you have to

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email us that through us not maximum

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fun. So you have to send your receipt,

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your proof of membership to

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readingglassespodcast.gmail.com. So two emails,

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unlock the world for you.

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So Robin wrote in to say, Hi, I'm

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excited to be a new member. You guys

6:15

keep my TBR list ever growing. I would

6:17

love to join your Slack channel because I

6:19

just can't get enough. I appreciate all your

6:21

work. I grew up thinking I was a

6:23

terrible reader because I was slow. No one

6:26

encouraged me to work at it and continue

6:28

reading if I enjoyed it. Now I'm an

6:30

elementary school building specialist dyslexia therapist. I have

6:32

the opportunity to encourage students and teachers to

6:34

read what they love and intervene for those

6:36

who struggle to read. I started an open book

6:38

club at school once I learned so many teachers were

6:40

secretly reading A Court of Thorns and

6:42

Roses. Secret, Horny Fairy

6:45

book club at school. I love it. Anyway,

6:47

thank you for all your recommendations and tips.

6:49

This is so sweet. Yeah, that's great. You

6:51

figured out how to help people who were

6:53

going through your year going through. That's great.

6:55

Yeah, that is Robin. You're a superhero to

6:57

us. That is incredible. Roy wrote in

6:59

and said, Hi, Bria and Mallory. My functional

7:01

reason for reaching out was to get an

7:03

invitation to their Glasser Slack. I see why

7:06

you put that at the top of the

7:08

show, not Mallory. In addition to that, though,

7:10

I wanted to thank you for helping this

7:12

burnout formerly voracious reader kick a six-year book

7:14

slump to the curb. Yay. I had so

7:16

much shame about not being a reader anymore,

7:18

but your gentleness and normalization of the book

7:20

slump as a temporary stake gave me faith

7:23

in myself to start again and went from

7:25

reading a couple of books a year to

7:27

reading 30 books in the past six

7:29

months. Oh my God. Your

7:31

recommendations are borne on, especially for me

7:34

as a sci-fi fantasy loving and genderqueer

7:36

lesbian who values queer, trans and women

7:38

centered stories. I'm even starting

7:40

to dip my scaredy cat paw into some

7:42

horror. Thanks to you. I'm a therapist and

7:44

discussing books with my more bookish clients has

7:47

brought a whole new dimension to my clinical

7:49

work. Reading again has made me feel more

7:51

in touch with myself than I have in a long

7:53

time. Thank you so much for doing the work that

7:55

you do. It really changes lives, including mine. P.S. It's

7:57

been less than six months and my living holds at

7:59

the library are absolutely out of control. It's

8:01

all your fault. And I wouldn't have it

8:04

any other way. PPS, I live in Massachusetts

8:06

and love Mallory's occasional Massachusetts deep cuts. I

8:09

get up in the morning for emails like this. Yeah,

8:11

that's really great. We're glad to hear it. That's

8:13

so wonderful. I love it so much.

8:15

Rory, we're so honored to be able to help

8:18

you in that way. And then

8:20

Caitlin wrote in to say, hi, Brian

8:22

Mallory, just listening to your bonus episode

8:24

and hearing about Wishbone brought back some

8:26

of my favorite childhood memories. Speaking of

8:28

our bonus content, people loved the nineties

8:30

reading show episodes that we did this year. Caitlin

8:33

said, I used to watch the show when I came

8:35

home from school and I love it so much. My

8:37

parents bought me a set of bedsheets with Wishbone dressed

8:39

up in costumes on the pillowcases. Oh

8:41

my gosh. Caitlin still has these. Wow. Incredible.

8:45

When they weren't on my bed, I would use

8:47

the sheets as a picnic blanket in the living

8:49

room and eat my after school snack while watching

8:52

the latest Wishbone episode and spoiling the plot for

8:54

my younger siblings who haven't read the book

8:56

featured in the episode. Wishbone was

8:58

the perfect gateway to get grade school aged

9:00

me interested in classic literature. Even if I

9:02

wasn't experienced enough to grasp all the themes

9:04

yet, it made me want to learn and

9:06

read even more. Happy to have loved your

9:09

podcast for many years and excited to continue

9:11

loving it for hopefully many more. Bria, you

9:13

want to read Caitlin's Wheelhouse? Grumpy slash

9:15

sunshine romances, magical historical fiction, found

9:17

family, queer LGBTQ plus retellings, women

9:19

with swords, exclamation point, and women

9:21

protagonists who have no time for

9:23

love only sides, but maybe love

9:25

still shows up anyway. I love

9:29

it. Very good. What a great group of

9:31

listener feedback. So you can

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email us at readingglassespodcast.com. If you

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want a list of all the books we talk about on the

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show, deliver to your inbox every month. You can sign up for our

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newsletter. There's a link in the show notes and I have a really

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big bookmark folks. Finally. Finally

9:44

it's happening. Please folks.

9:48

I can finally announce my next book. This has

9:50

been a really big deal. I've

9:52

been waiting to do this. It was, oh my God. My

9:55

side was a literally had like dust and

9:58

dust on it. So what

10:00

do I do? I

10:05

feel so honored that Bria broke out her slack with

10:08

both. I've been

10:10

working on this book for a really long time. It did get

10:12

bumped back, which is why it's been waiting so long because we

10:14

wanted to. We're supposed to

10:16

release it this summer. We actually decide we're going to

10:18

release it next February. It is

10:20

called Daughter of Daring. I've been working on this

10:23

book for a really long time. It's my next

10:25

adult nonfiction. It is the

10:27

biography of a woman named Helen

10:29

Gibson. She was America's first stunt

10:32

woman. So when I was working

10:34

on Girls Make Movies a couple of years ago or

10:37

three years ago now, I was doing

10:39

research for the stunt chapter and I realized that

10:41

I didn't really know that much about the history

10:43

of women in stunts. And so I was like,

10:45

all right, well, in my head, I was like, OK,

10:47

well, I'll be looking up, you know, women from like

10:50

in my head. It was all like it must have had to been women from the

10:52

80s. It turns out the first

10:54

stunt woman worked in the 1910s. And

10:58

I was like, who is this woman? What was

11:00

what was she doing in 1910? Like

11:02

this is before some people had toilets. Like what was

11:04

going on here? And I emailed my

11:06

agent about it and I ended up falling deep into

11:09

this world of Helen Gibson. She was an action

11:11

hero in the 1910s. A

11:13

lot of people don't realize that one,

11:15

almost every single action movie hero

11:17

was a woman. The most popular

11:20

type of action movie was

11:22

all women centric. With all these

11:24

female action heroes doing amazing things. They

11:26

were doing stunts with no padding. Like

11:29

Helen Gibson was driving motorcycles onto moving

11:31

trains with like an ankle length skirt

11:33

on. And so her life is incredible.

11:35

She did all these amazing things. She

11:37

was a rodeo rider. I mean,

11:40

she started working in the 1910s. Her last movie was

11:42

in the 1960s. She had this incredible

11:44

career. But at the same time, the book is

11:46

also about this period of Hollywood that I kind

11:49

of knew about, like sort of like

11:51

intellectually understood existed, but didn't really understand

11:54

Is that when Hollywood first began, it was

11:56

an industry of women. Like it was completely

11:58

controlled by women. All The Top. The

12:00

doors were women, some the top directors were

12:02

women. There were women Korean studios who were

12:04

top producers. It was a a glimpse into

12:06

a completely different type of Hollywood and it

12:09

was like theaters where their main audience that

12:11

they were trying to get into theaters was

12:13

when in like it was just a totally.

12:15

It was fascinating for me to look back

12:17

and be like oh it was easier for

12:20

women to get movies made before are like

12:22

cell phones. So it

12:24

it's just it's a really fascinating time

12:26

period and them and Alan with they

12:28

are through all of it. I of this

12:30

really fun. Book all about Her so you'll learn.

12:33

If you're into Hollywood history, rodeo history, any

12:35

sort of women's history air, this is the

12:37

before you. I really hope you preorder it.

12:39

I hope U S or Library to preorder

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it for you. I'm actually glad that it

12:44

just happened to work out that this I

12:46

get to talk about it finally in this

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episode. Speaking of anticipated books, So

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around. Thank.

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16:06

This week, we're talking about our most

16:08

anticipated books for June and July, 2024.

16:12

Get out your library holds list or

16:14

get ready to smash that pre-order button.

16:16

Doesn't matter what genre you love, we

16:18

have got the hottest picks for you.

16:20

They are sizzling. They are. We are,

16:22

me and Brea are the waitresses at

16:25

the restaurant bringing out a fajita plate

16:27

of anticipated books for you. The whole restaurant

16:30

is staring at you. Get

16:32

ready to pre-order. And we also just off

16:34

the top want to thank our incredible and

16:36

generous Maximum Fun members for making it possible

16:38

to bring these episodes out of the members-only

16:40

bonus feed and into the main feed. These

16:42

episodes take so much more work than literally anything

16:44

else we do and we are very grateful that

16:46

so many glassers joined and unlocked them. And

16:48

remember, we're only talking about a few of

16:50

our picks. If you look in the show

16:53

notes, God, I am begging you on my

16:55

knees to look at the show notes. There's

16:57

a gigantic curated list with genres

16:59

and wheelhouse items in the show

17:01

notes. Mallory does so much work

17:03

on this and I really like.

17:06

Like 16 hours. Okay. The

17:08

wild thing too is that I don't know what

17:10

to call these. I get random texts from Mallory

17:12

just like out of nowhere that will just have

17:15

information on them like little Mallory updates, you know?

17:17

And then this was like, there are so many

17:19

books coming out June and July. And I'm

17:21

like, oh, interesting. And then there was like a follow-up to

17:23

that where you were like, no, there's like a lot of

17:25

books. And then later you're like, someone else

17:27

is talking about the number of books coming out in June

17:29

and July. Like it was like so many updates about the

17:32

number of books. And then I looked at the list. I

17:34

hadn't looked at it up until that point. And there is

17:36

a lot of books coming out in June and July. Because

17:38

these are supposed to be quarterly. But then I looked at

17:40

how many books are coming out in June and July and

17:42

I was like, I can't include another month. Yeah, it was

17:45

too many. It was so it's hard. There's so many great

17:47

books coming out. Let's talk about them. Yeah. So

17:49

we do have for June starting off, we do have one shared

17:52

pic, which we both already read and loved

17:54

horror movie by Paul Tremblay friend of the

17:56

show. I already knew that we were

17:58

both going to love this book. But man,

18:00

this is such a banger, Brea. I loved

18:03

this book. I think I read an early version of it.

18:05

It's going to be on my top books of the year.

18:07

Look, as a filmmaker, I'm always wary when someone's like, I'm

18:09

writing a book, it takes place in the film industry. I'm

18:12

like, are you? And Paul

18:14

wrote one that literally dove into my

18:16

worst fears as a filmmaker. Like, it

18:18

really tackled what it's like to shoot

18:20

a low budget movie, a really low

18:22

budget movie, with like you and a

18:25

couple of your friends, and what it

18:27

looks like when there's an accident on that

18:30

movie. And like, how horrifying, that's my ultimate

18:32

nightmare. And like, how horrifying it is to

18:35

deal with that. But also, there's a supernatural

18:37

element to Paul's, obviously. And it's two different

18:39

timelines, which I know a lot of people

18:41

like. And of course,

18:43

because it's Paul Tremblay who is truly the master

18:45

of this, is a big thing of like, did

18:47

this actually happen? How did this happen? Kind

18:50

of an unreliable narrator situation. It

18:52

is so fucking good. That's right. 100% It's art.

18:56

It's going to be on my best of the year

18:58

halftime show list, for

19:00

sure. But all right,

19:02

so Bria, what is your first solo pick for

19:04

anticipated books for June? My

19:07

first one was one that I already

19:09

had had on my list called Service

19:11

Model by Adrienne Tchaikovsky. It is described

19:13

as Murderbot meets Redshirts, which, wow, can't

19:15

think of something I would love more

19:18

than that. But oh, and I have

19:20

to say, on my half year best

19:22

stuff so far, there's a lot of

19:24

robot AI books on my anticipated. There's

19:26

a lot. This is going to be the year of the robot for me because

19:28

there's so many AI and robot books.

19:31

I've literally read two AI

19:33

robot books this year that I think

19:35

came out this year already. Yeah, yeah.

19:37

And I have a lot on this list. Anyway,

19:39

this is basically robots murdering their owners in a

19:42

world in which humanity is already scarce. And then these

19:44

robots go out and they like have to figure out the world

19:46

on their own. So I'm into this. It sounds

19:48

a little bit also like day zero. This

19:51

just feels like something that I would really, really

19:53

like. What's your first one you're looking forward to?

19:55

I'm a huge Sarah Perry fan. I talked

19:57

about her in our. Oops,

20:00

all Sarah's episode as one of my favorite Sarah

20:02

authors. She's this historical fiction writer and she finally

20:05

has a new one out. I'm so pumped about

20:07

it. I have an arc. I haven't started it

20:09

yet, but I've got it. It's called Enlightenment. So

20:11

it's like literary historical fiction. And this is like

20:13

right on the line of historical because it's like

20:16

late 90s. So it's

20:18

like right there. All I know about

20:20

it is it's about astronomy, these two

20:22

astronomers, and they were friends and there's

20:24

kind of some unrequited love happening. But

20:26

there's also a mystery going on. So

20:29

Sarah Perry is really great at

20:31

blending multiple genres. Her most famous

20:33

book, The Essex Serpent, is like

20:35

historical fiction and romance, but also a

20:37

little bit of horror. And this feels like a

20:40

similar type of book, but instead of

20:42

horror, it's science and astronomy mixed

20:44

in with a mystery and romance.

20:46

So I am super pumped. A

20:49

new Sarah Perry book is definitely an event

20:51

in my brain. So what's your next one?

20:54

My next one is Incidents Around the House

20:56

by Josh Malloran. We're both big Josh Malloran

20:58

fans. I loved Bird

21:00

Box. There's so many Josh Malloran

21:02

books that are, I mean, Oh, what's he's a

21:04

Darlene, the one that really scared the good out

21:06

of you? Daphne. Daphne really scared me. I loved

21:09

Daphne. Josh Malloran writes a lot of books and

21:11

they're all bangers. This one is actually sitting. I

21:13

have it sitting at my house right now and

21:15

I keep thinking about reading it, but I have

21:17

to wait till I'm not going to get freaked

21:19

out because it sounds very scary. It's a haunting

21:22

toad from the perspective of a young girl who

21:24

there's an entity in her house. So she lives

21:26

with her mother, her dad, her grandmother, but also

21:28

an entity she calls Other Mommy. Which is

21:31

a really scary thing. No. Wait.

21:38

And Other Mommy constantly asks, can I go

21:40

inside your heart? And that's all I really

21:42

know about it. But I've heard from other

21:44

horror people who are like, this is an

21:46

amazing book, like people who've read early copies

21:48

of it. So I have to wait till

21:50

I'm not freaked out. But I'm

21:52

really looking forward to reading that. What's your next one? My

21:54

next one is The Sons of El Rey

21:56

by Alex Espinoza. And the first thing I

21:58

wrote, because when you look in the back, Show notes there

22:00

is I or this a title and the

22:03

author and then I picked the genres and

22:05

then the wheelhouse items for each bush in

22:07

the first one I wrote down for. this

22:09

is just gay looted doors with by that's

22:11

committee said isolated Some really excited they or

22:14

is it's like a family saga. It bounces

22:16

between Mexico City in Los Angeles in the

22:18

Nineteen eighties so it's This is a literary

22:20

fiction but it has so much like it's

22:22

illegal. It's gonna be a really fine literary

22:25

fiction with a lot of fun elements. I'm

22:27

really excited for a gay looted or family

22:29

drama that historical. And takes place in and

22:31

in my city. So I think it's this is

22:33

gonna be. Super. Pumped. I mean I don't know

22:35

what else I need to tell. You besides gay, lose you

22:37

Doors and co. Sounds amazing! Ah oh

22:39

I thought I knew you were going to

22:42

pick those. Yeah, this is a buzzy one.

22:44

Yeah my next to the Moon Bound by

22:46

Robin Sloan My lover of and Sloan. I

22:48

had to retire Robinson Book for my recommendations

22:50

because I recommended it too many times I

22:52

have soured out. This line is just. Straight.

22:55

Up Size I fantasy takes place thirteen

22:57

thousand years in the future and as

22:59

a boy living a small town who's

23:02

living under a wizards rule and then

23:04

I decided to go off on an

23:06

epic adventure and apparently there's a I.

23:08

there's a like at the Snp and

23:10

record keeping a I and it's up

23:13

to see Big Ethic book by Robin

23:15

Flown which is so excited I am

23:17

saying it makes me excited I'm thrilled

23:19

And threads what was your lesson for

23:21

gym My last one is one I

23:23

actually just started reading. Which is, it's

23:26

great. So far it's Cicada Summer by Eric.

23:28

I'm a keen and it's a literary book,

23:30

but it's also weird, vixen and queer. So

23:32

calling it cleared six and that's a hot

23:35

new term that you can that word coin

23:37

here and with a bow on a deterrent,

23:39

as it should be, It. Should be.

23:41

It is now. you hear it hurt

23:43

here first folks cleared fiction for years and

23:46

it's a book about a book but it's

23:48

also got grief elements to it and it's

23:50

one of the first pandemic books that i

23:52

ran was really interesting it's about this woman

23:55

and right before the pandemic hit her grandfather

23:57

who lives up in canada has had a

23:59

stroke And then the pandemic hits

24:01

and the personal care worker that her mother hired

24:03

for her grandfather obviously isn't going to be

24:05

working there anymore. So she travels up there

24:08

to take care of her grandfather and she

24:10

ends up, she's an academic, and

24:13

the situation ends up happening where this woman

24:15

that she had or this romantic relationship with

24:17

but also a professional relationship with at her

24:19

college, they were working on this project together,

24:21

comes to stay with her to keep working

24:23

on this project. And

24:25

one of the big things in the book

24:27

is it's the cicada season. So there's all

24:29

this cicada is happening. She has found this

24:31

book and there's like a mystery about the

24:33

book. I don't want to spoil too much.

24:36

But she's reading this book and trying to

24:38

deal with this like semi-romatic, semi-professional relationship all

24:40

while being quarantined with her grandfather who is

24:43

losing his cognitive abilities. So

24:45

it's very surreal and dreamy and weird, but it's

24:47

really fun so far. I'm really enjoying it. Again,

24:49

those are just a few of the books we're

24:51

excited for June. I think there's 15 pages

24:54

of more books in the show notes. So

24:56

check out our June picks, but let's move

24:58

on to July. And we

25:00

do have another share pick for this big, buzzy one. Yes,

25:04

which is All This and More by

25:06

Pong Shephard. We both love Pong Shephard's

25:08

work. We really do. Cartographers was a big,

25:10

buzzy reading glasses book, Book of M I

25:12

Know You Really Loved. And this is

25:14

another fantasy book, but it's a two-year-old adventure fantasy.

25:16

Mallory, this is another Mallory update, texted me, just

25:19

sent me this book. It was like, this is

25:21

happening. Like, just like, you got to know this

25:23

is happening. So we're both stoked on this. You

25:25

know what? I'm going to pre-order this right now

25:27

while I'll do it in a second, but I

25:29

am going to pre-order this book because

25:32

I got to read this as soon as it comes

25:34

out. It basically seems like sort of similar to Matt

25:36

Haig's Midnight Library where it's this woman. She

25:38

is just turned 45. Like, everything

25:41

in her life sucks. Like her

25:43

marriage has blown up. Her career sucks.

25:45

Her relationship with her daughter and the

25:48

rest of her family is bad. And

25:50

she gets this chance to go on

25:52

this TV show that uses quantum technology

25:55

to allow their contestants to live

25:57

out different lives. Wow. Love

25:59

this. TV show. I would love

26:01

that too. So she goes on there and

26:03

she starts, she explores all these different

26:05

avenues in her life and but

26:07

of course you know when you get to go

26:09

back and redo things, the choices you think you

26:12

maybe should have made, maybe you shouldn't have after

26:14

all, but the cool thing about and obviously the

26:16

defining difference of this book is that you get

26:18

to be the one who chooses. You get to

26:20

pick which life that she goes to. So

26:22

I'm super pumped about this. I think it's gonna

26:24

be a blast. Bria, what is your first pick? Oh

26:26

I thought you were gonna pick this one from Friend

26:29

of the Show. Friend of the Show, May Cobb has

26:31

a new book coming out called The Hollywood Assistant which

26:33

sounds really fun. May Cobb's The Honeym you

26:52

know this could work out well for

26:55

me and then apparently somebody is found

26:57

dead and this assistant becomes the

26:59

perfect suspect for that. So like a

27:01

fun mystery set in Hollywood which seems

27:03

very exciting. What's your next one? My

27:05

next one? Oh this

27:08

is so hotly anticipated for me. It's the

27:10

next Shady Hollow book. I think it's the fifth

27:12

one in the series. It's called Summer's End by

27:14

Juno Black and we listen

27:16

to the show you know that I'm obsessed with

27:19

the Shady Hollow series. It is a cozy mystery

27:21

series set in this little woodland town

27:23

inhabited by little woodland creatures

27:25

and the main character is Vera Vixen who's

27:27

this fox. She is a reporter for

27:29

the local newspaper and she ends up

27:32

getting entangled in local mysteries and all

27:34

I know about this one is it's

27:36

their dark academia one. I was

27:39

like oh two great tastes that taste

27:41

great together. I am cannot wait. I

27:44

was so pumped about it and I know that

27:46

there are some glasses. I see them talking in

27:48

the slack that have been reading this series along

27:50

with me. So folks let's get hyped. New Juno

27:52

Black book this summer What is your next pick?

27:54

Oh yeah I knew it. Well now it's like

27:56

five Texas books on here and I was like oh wow

27:58

I love all of these. Well, I added

28:00

a lot of them to my list. I'll

28:02

just talk about one, which is called No

28:04

Road Home by John Fram, which sounds amazing.

28:07

It's about a single father who has a

28:09

son who he's really tried

28:11

to like save from the bigotry

28:13

of Texas. They have a relationship

28:15

with a televangelist who is always

28:17

Old Testament preaching and they

28:19

end up going to this televangelist, the

28:21

compound that that family lives on and

28:23

bad things start happening. A storm

28:25

cuts off the power. Somebody

28:28

is found murdered. It is very bad and

28:30

has like a queer element to it.

28:32

It just sounds really good. So it's

28:34

like a mystery set in Texas on

28:36

this like super Christian compound, which is

28:39

a dangerous place for this queer child.

28:41

Sounds wonderful. Dark. I

28:43

read John Fram's last book that is

28:45

also a queer Texas thriller and it

28:47

was fucking incredible. So this is going to be

28:50

really good. Oh, it's called a

28:52

bright light. Oh, Bright Lands. Bright

28:54

Lands. Yeah. That was on my

28:56

list. I never got to it though. It's

28:58

very intense, but it is very good. Cool.

29:01

Yay. What's your next one? My

29:04

next one is a weird speculative fiction

29:06

YA book that is about these two.

29:08

It's called Grief in the Fourth Dimension

29:10

by Jennifer Yu. And it's

29:12

about these two teenagers who, spoiler alert,

29:14

die and they're from the same high school,

29:17

but they were not friends. They

29:19

existed in separate social circles. One

29:21

of them was really nerdy. One of them was really sporty, but

29:23

they've died and they find themselves after

29:26

their death in this weird white room

29:28

and where this TV is playing the events

29:30

of their lives now that they've got like,

29:32

they're like, they're seeing their high school, their

29:34

family as what life is. Go. They're

29:38

watching life go on without them and they

29:40

like, they're trying to figure out, they're like,

29:42

why are we here? What is the point

29:44

of us watching this on the screen? They

29:47

realize they can influence things that are happening,

29:49

but only through like radio signals and like,

29:51

you know, electromagnetic interference, just like very

29:53

weird, vague things. So they're, they

29:55

start trying to figure out how to console their

29:58

families. But then they. start

30:00

learning things about themselves and their deaths

30:02

and how to help themselves heal and

30:05

their family heal. I love a

30:07

weird book. I love a weird YA book. This

30:09

seems very kind of AS King similar so I'm

30:11

really pumped about that. What's your last one? Oh

30:13

I knew you were gonna pick this. I almost

30:15

picked this one but I knew this was a

30:17

Bria book. My last one is The Lost Souls

30:19

of Bin Zayton. I don't

30:21

know exactly I pronounced that. By Kelly

30:23

Mureshich. This is about a young woman

30:27

who really wishes to become

30:29

one of those vacuum cleaner robots and

30:31

she's praying it to Altru of this

30:34

Japanese goddess and she's like I just

30:36

want to become one of those robot

30:38

vacuums and the goddess decides to answer

30:40

and is like okay what if I

30:42

offer you a counterpoint here I'm gonna

30:44

show you the beauty of humanity and

30:46

that's what it becomes about seeing

30:48

all the stuff that she has been missing seeing all

30:51

the stuff that she's lost and then she starts interacting

30:53

with the souls of the dead and then I think

30:55

this robot vacuum thing comes back into play I'm not

30:57

really sure but it sounds awesome YA sci-fi

31:00

like in the best way possible it seems like

31:02

and I could totally see your I feel like

31:05

you or I will one of us will definitely

31:07

be reading this. Oh probably

31:09

both of us. This sounds extremely up both our

31:12

alleys in very different reasons. What's

31:14

your last one? My last book is

31:16

another one that I think the glassers

31:18

will really like. It is a queer

31:20

medieval heist book. Ooh.

31:24

Sounds so much fun. I like that. It's a

31:26

debut book for people who are doing

31:28

the reading glasses challenge. It takes place in

31:30

the early 1000s in this Italian city and

31:32

all I know about it is it's a

31:34

group of queer adventurers I think one of

31:36

them's a monk one of them's a treasure

31:39

hunter they're all getting together because they want

31:41

to steal these 700 year old Saint bones

31:45

and turn them in because there's a plague

31:47

happening they want to turn them in for

31:49

a bunch of money because people think these

31:52

relics can heal the sick So

31:54

they go on. This group of this

31:56

like Motley crew of queer medieval people

31:58

go on this adventure. To steal

32:00

the bones as it just so fucking fire.

32:03

I guess there's some. There's some romance, there's

32:05

just adventure elements that just sounds super fucking

32:07

fun and weird. And I'm I'm I'm all

32:09

in for it that The Nypd by Empty

32:12

Anderson. I don't even know if I said

32:14

the title, but nicht by Empty Anderson. So

32:16

again folk, these are all the book that

32:19

we're really pumped about. but there are so

32:21

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35:15

Now let's answer a bookish question from one

35:17

of our listeners. Micah writes in Hello, Bria

35:19

Mallory. I'm writing to thank you for mentioning

35:22

the shady hollow series in one of your

35:24

recent episodes. Hey, put this in here because

35:27

we already talked about it. God, I love this series.

35:29

While I've read a couple of Agatha Christie novels,

35:31

mystery is not a genre I generally reach for.

35:34

But the comparison to the Red Wall series is what

35:36

got me interested. I'm now done with the first book

35:38

and the second one just came in from the library

35:40

and I'm totally hooked. Thank you as

35:43

always for bringing books to my attention that

35:45

I probably never would have heard of otherwise.

35:47

It did get me thinking what's the most

35:49

recent book that you have read based on

35:51

your interest or wheelhouse that shouldn't have worked

35:53

for you but totally did. I

35:55

loved this question and had to bump it up in the queue because

35:57

I was like, Oh, I really want to talk about this. All right,

35:59

Bria. What is a book that should not have

36:01

been a Bria book, but you loved? I, this is hard

36:03

for me, but one I ended up, I recommend

36:05

a lot. So I think, but I don't think

36:08

of it as a Bria book is Book Lovers

36:10

by Emily Henry. Like I would never put romance

36:12

in my like books that represent me or things

36:14

that represent me. But it does have

36:16

things in my wheelhouse because it is a little meta. It's

36:19

not totally meta, but it's meta enough to where

36:21

I liked it and as a small town, which

36:23

I do like. But there are no secrets there.

36:25

No secrets in the small town, which is really

36:27

what I like about a small town. Regular old

36:29

small town, everything wearing its heart on its sleeve,

36:31

nothing, nothing going on underneath the surface. But I

36:33

think because it's aware of its genre and talks

36:36

about its genre, that's something I just really enjoy

36:38

is when a book is like, we know that

36:40

you know what romance is and we're going to

36:42

use those tropes. And so that's something I think

36:45

a book that I just ended up really liking.

36:47

There's other ones like I think about every

36:50

Taylor Jenkins read book surprises me because I'm

36:52

always like, do I like tennis? Like now

36:54

it really changes how I feel about something.

36:56

Like I'm like, oh, wow, I guess I'm

36:58

interested in tennis now because I read a

37:00

whole book about tennis by Taylor Jenkins

37:03

read. So there are authors that can like really

37:05

surprise me by their subjects where I'm like, I

37:07

would never read this book and then I do

37:09

and I like it. So those would be the

37:11

ones. What about you? What a book surprised you.

37:13

A book that we both read and loved is

37:16

Long Division by Kia Sae Layman. Oh, yeah. So

37:18

this is a sci-fi book and Glasser's. No, I'm

37:20

not a big sci-fi person. I'm like all the

37:22

things that are in this book I'm not really

37:24

into. Like I'm not into weird time stuff.

37:27

I am not into basketball. Like

37:30

so much so much in

37:32

this book that like is not really for

37:34

me. But I really love Kia Sae Layman's

37:36

nonfiction writing. And when I found out that

37:38

he had written this book and it got

37:40

re-released a couple of years ago, I was

37:43

like, well, fuck it. You know, I love his nonfiction writing.

37:45

I'll give it a try. And

37:47

so it's got these parallel storylines and it's

37:50

the same character in the 1980s, but also

37:53

now and then also in the 1950s. And

37:55

there's a portal Between this character finds a portal between

37:57

all these timelines and all these different selves. And

38:00

if a strange book that connects them

38:02

and. Also. You can

38:04

read the book. Either where are you

38:06

can read it front to back or back to

38:08

front. Him and his like it that book. The

38:11

book. Flipside: Out it's of. It's so weird.

38:13

Of in the honestly the book is

38:15

so fucking funny and it's so strange

38:18

and. Ah but I i at

38:20

idle loved it and I think I still think

38:22

about it all the time cause it's so weird.

38:24

But honestly, if I hadn't heard of him. I

38:27

would not have picked this book up and

38:29

I'm glad that I did. To pre why

38:31

did you? Why why did you pick up

38:33

Book Lovers by Emily Henry as discuss it

38:35

was with a buzzy book is book. Yeah

38:37

it was a buddy Yeah any was about

38:39

books and I know that's something I like.

38:41

The also a d it was delayed. The

38:43

pitch for it was guide. You know it's

38:45

like oh it's a woman who is above

38:47

publisher and she's like oh no I'm the

38:49

bad guy in every romance novel and that

38:51

I'm the woman that the guy leaves and

38:53

goes back to the small town for because

38:55

he doesn't want to be. With his big

38:57

city New York. And girlfriend anymore

38:59

and she's like I'm her I become the tremendous

39:01

is literally going to break up at the beginning

39:04

an episode. I it's really funny and then it's

39:06

I see her life and turns into this romance

39:08

thing and she's like oh my gosh this I

39:10

know these shrubs, these are things I'm not supposed

39:12

to be about. This and that to me was

39:14

really funny and interesting. So I did you for

39:16

me as more the pitch. I think that my

39:18

first Emily Henry book I read. And

39:21

that yeah, I think there's something about it where I

39:23

was like, guess is taking the thing that it is.

39:26

And. Playing. With those trips

39:28

which. Both it did and then also

39:30

it like uses the tropes in a really great

39:32

way. I think this is one of my

39:35

favorite. Types of reading experiences. when you

39:37

pick up a book you have no pressure

39:39

on at no expert peace in there some

39:41

tertiary thing that is like a slight connection

39:43

leave her to the author or like you

39:45

know like with book lovers there was like

39:47

something in the pitch that seemed kind of

39:49

interesting it's not really in your wheelhouse and

39:51

if you don't like it either just put

39:53

it actually while i wasn't bowser like this

39:55

anyways but then you love it and you're

39:57

like here's this weird random thing sad that

39:59

i'm super into i absolutely love that

40:01

type of reading experience. So I'd love

40:03

to know what book this is

40:05

for glasses. Send your answers

40:07

to readingglassespodcast.gmail.com because I'm very,

40:10

very intrigued to see what book this is for people.

40:12

And Micah, thanks for writing. I love when people write

40:14

in, I mean, we get a ton of book problems,

40:16

but I also love when people just have interesting questions

40:18

like this for us. Because

40:21

I did not really think about this when

40:23

I read Long Division by Kia Saliman, but

40:25

it's something I'm gonna be paying attention to.

40:27

A random book that's not in my wheelhouse,

40:30

but I ended up loving. So again, you

40:32

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