You're listening to Reading Glasses. 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 Brea Grant

filmmaker and e-reader. This episode, we're talking about how to find your, find books

like your favorite, shows, and movies, and we're doing an interview with author Tade Thompson.

But first, what are you reading, Brea? I am reading. I just started a book by Joe Harkin,

he's an author I like, sort of, is a, it's our world, but different book, sci-fi book,

called Tell Me an Ending, has to do with memory removal. I just also want to classify

this as near future sci-fi, and I kept thinking, is that then the near future? I just can't

imagine this. Anyway, it's about a world in which you can have bad memories removed if you

don't want them, sort of a eternal mind or a vanilla sky situation. Is that the plot of

a vanilla sky? I can't remember. I've never saw a vanilla sky. Oh wow. So, but then, at the

beginning of this book, the corporation who does this gets sued because there are like traces

possibly left in people's minds of these memories, and they're like, oh yeah, we couldn't remove

the whole memory. And so they, they have to reveal to people, there's two different types of people

who had memories removed. There's people who know they had them removed, and they have, and they,

they're aware that they have things removed, and then there are the people who got them removed,

and they don't want to be aware. The people who didn't want to be aware, they had no idea

they had memories removed because of this court case. They're told they get an email that says,

you had a memory removed. Let us know if you wanted to be restored because now they have to restore

things. Oh my god, that would drive me nuts. Well, it does. It drives people wild. It's something

glasses like it's a multiple storyline at multiple protagonists. It was like four or five

different storylines. One's like a person who works in the clinic. One is a person who has been

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