You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better. I'm author and booktabour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Bria Grant,

filmmaker and e-reader. This episode, we're talking about a common reader

woe, and that is book fomo when there are too many good books and just not enough

time in the day or the year or the lifetime. And we have a spooky interview with Andy

Moreno. But Ferry, so what are you reading, Bria? Here's a weird thing. I do read horror

like year round, you know, and I just, I was like, I need to read some more because I

know the glassers are reading that horror out there. So I'm trying to make sure I read some

horror during this month. And I just finished a book called, and then I woke up by Malcolm Devlin.

It's a horror book. Sounds spooky. It has a very spooky, spooky cover. I thought you were going

to be like, I've read this. I'm going to read all the horror books. Wow. Okay. You know,

I'm going to tell you something. I fucking loved it. It was great. I'm trying to see how

much I can give away because there's some pretty big twists. Oh no. In this world of the book,

there are all these people who are quote unquote cured. They are cured because, oh man, how can I

tell you? You know, I'm going to read this to tell you what and what it says on on good reads about

this because there are a lot of twists. But what you should know is that this is one of the best books

to me. I think it is a horror book, but it's really about misinformation and that thing that's

happening to people when they get on the internet and the internet only gives them information

that is that like reinforces their current beliefs of things that are not necessarily true,

like that JFK juniors alive or something like that. Okay. So I'm going to read you with this

is because I don't want to give away too much, but it is such a, I'm telling you, Mallory,

this book is really blew me away in the use of this analogy, but in like a horror world. So it says

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