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 bring a grant filmmaker and tea reader.

At this episode, we're ticking off another box on the 2022 Reading Glasses Reading Glasses

Challenge, read a book by an AAPI author.

But first, what are you reading, Bri?

Okay.

Here's why I love the glasses.

That I read a series called The Books of Babel, and I was talking about them, and I said,

wow, I can't wait for the next one to come out.

And someone was like, Bri, are you dumb, dumb?

It's already out.

And so I met, and they were correct.

That person.

I don't know who you are.

I came out in November.

Thank you for letting me know.

So I'm reading The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft.

It's the final book in the series.

It's really fucking long.

It's a hunker.

I think I can't remember when I opened it up.

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