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 Bragrant, actress, filmmaker filmmaker and E-reader. This episode we're talking

about book covers and interviewing creative director Lauren Panapinto. But first...

What are you reading, Bria? I am reading a book of short stories by Hugh Howie called Machine Learning.

Ooh, is that new?

It's brand new.

It came out like in October.

The fact that I got it so quickly was very exciting for me.

I was on the way. I was on the way. The fact that I got it so quickly was very exciting. Yeah, who would you stab at the library?

I was on the wait list before it came out at the library.

I was like, because, oh, because this is a new thing with Overdrive.

People may have noticed that now you can get, put the book on your hold list before the book comes out

which you see you can pre-hold you can pre-hold but it means it is taking up a

spot on your precious holds list you know because you're only allowed a certain number of those which is not very many it's I mean it's a lot probably for

The library, you know, I don't want to disc the library, but I would love to hold a lot more books than I do hold currently

That I have on hold but yeah, so I got it really quickly but Hugh Howie did a book call he did the silo series

book Yeah, wool which I really liked but the whole series, I think they call the silo series now?

Not really sure.

But this is just a book of short stories.

It's supposed to have a couple of silo-based stories in it. I have not gotten to those yet. So far I've read one about

mountain climbing in an alien situation and also an alien situation and also an alien

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