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 episode we're breaking down why indie bookstores are great

and interviewing the manager of our local indie, Stephen Salardino.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

Oh, I am reading.

Look at you with your book journal.

I'm doing too much.

I can't remember what I'm reading right now. So I brought my book journal. Yay!

So I've read a lot in the last couple of weeks randomly. Oh, long way down by Jason Reynolds.

I have not heard of this. Have you not heard of this book?

It's a buzzy book.

Oh man. Well I've been in I've been sort of in a molehole.

In a mowho?

It is a this book that's written on it takes place on an elevator ride as the guy goes down to the first floor.

And it's written almost like poetry because it's written like if you wrote something and it

looked like an elevator that's what it looks like so it's written in these

like short columns you could read it in an hour like it's very short

is a very short is good yeah it's really great and it's about his this guy and his

brother was just killed and he is trying to go kill the guy who killed his brother and then all of

a sudden all these ghosts start showing up on the elevator ride now.

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