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 week we're talking self-help books and interviewing Brooke Sit Graves Turner about adulting.

And we're going to talk about some...

Mallory bought another weird thing for the podcast

but what are you reading bria I'm reading a book that I borrowed from

you that I'm finally reading which one meddling kids oh by Edgar Cantaro reading. Which one? Meddeling kids.

Oh, by Edgar Kintaro.

Guys, can I just say something?

I promise I don't tell her the books ahead of time.

That's what's so weird about this that she can like just I mean I guess that one was yours so that's fine

But yeah don't tell you the books ahead of time right confirm confirm okay I'm just insane I so I just started it last night and so I don't know what it's really about but I think it's about like a Scooby-Doo type children, but they're all grown up?

It's a if Lovecraft wrote a Scooby-Doo episode.

Oh, okay, but they're grown up. Yes. The kids are grown up. They like were the Scooby-Doo kids who like would like find old man blah blah blah

who's been doing the blah blah blah blah. Yes it's kind of like it in that way. Yeah. It's like a mix of

it Scooby-Doo in Lovecraft. Okay. It's about a bunch of kids who like solved a

crime like solved a you know supernatural crime in their in their small town when they

were kids and then they grow up because they didn't solve it all the way.

Ooh that's really good.

Okay, people have been recommending it, so excited to read it.

What are you reading, Melling?

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