You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture, literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Breyer,

and I'm Breyer, filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about National Novel Writing Month.

That's Nanohrimo.

And interviewing author Tom Merritt,

who participates in Nanowrimo.

He's going to tell you all about it.

But first, what are you reading, Brio? Well? Well here's the thing now I'm using this.

Oh well Bria is coming to us live from her iPad this week and then you know I don't

read real book I mean I read real books but I read them on my things so I don't know who

wrote anything.

I am reading a book so okay a couple weeks ago I was like guys y'all it's the end of the

year I am concerned I'm not reading the best books of the year.

I gotta get, I gotta get these books in.

Tell me what the book that I should read is.

And if a book was named more than once, that was a thing.

If it was named more than twice, that was like two books.

And only one book was named more than three times.

And that was Gideon the 9th by Tamsen Muir.

It is an insane book. It is extreme. Yes, it's lesbian

necromancers in space. I mean it is extremely Bria book. Well they haven't

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