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, actress filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're discussing the finaries of book politics

and interviewing author Jessica Kristin.

But first, Mallory, what are you reading?

So right now, I am reading a book called The Night in Lonesome October

by Roger Zelasny, because as we're recording this,

it's like almost Halloween.

And me and my boyfriend are reading it together.

Adorable.

Like at the same time, are you guys flipping pages at the same time?

No, I've been actually, I took the advice of a lot of the people who wrote into this podcast

and what we do is we each read a chapter we switch back and forth

and read it out loud to each other. The book is like every every night like

every chapter is like October 1st October 2nd October 3rd and it's about the it's from the point of view of a dog.

Great.

I know you would appreciate and he is the watch dog for like this wizard guy who is like trying

to put together all these, he's like goes around and like

digs up graves and gets bones and gets like mummy dust and he's trying to put together

the spell before all these other mummy or witches and other magical people do and is really adorable it was

written in like the 60s it's like a Halloween classic that sounds amazing

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