You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better.

I'm author and book devour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Bria Gramps, filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're giving you our holiday book guide, which seems way early.

So many people are like, no, thanks, giving, well guess what, there's a supply shortage.

We felt like you would want to get those orders in if you're ordering a book.

So we're starting off early. We're helping you. We're helping you. Here we are.

I wish, I don't know, I'm trying to think of like a good holiday noise, like little jingly bells.

Oh, jinkle bells, I like that.

Oh, oh, oh, welcome to Reading Glasses.

But what do you, first, what do you, what are you reading Bria?

I am listening to, I'm listening to another micro history. I don't know what's going on with me.

This is all I want to listen to. I hear you, um, sapiens. Do you know this?

Oh, I've heard this is really good. Yeah, it's, um, by you, you've all Noah, Harari,

and it's narrated by Derek Perkins. And basically it starts at like the beginning of time.

There are homo sapiens and Neanderthals. And like, here's the difference between,

here's what happened between these two groups of people and like, uh, all the way through like,

I mean, this book, I, I just started listening to it, but it's basically like,

gonna cover all of humankind and how humans spread throughout the world. But, you know,

it's like talking about the, um, uh, the hunter gatherer societies. And, uh, I like it because the,

the, I don't always agree with the writer, but I feel like he has some opinions he likes to

throw in there where he's like, hunter gatherer, gatherer societies. They didn't work 40 hours

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