You are 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'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're starting the new year with book slump advice, extreme addition.

You know, it's like if you were listening to this episode, all of a sudden, Mallory and I come

down on like, like, snowboards.

Why didn't we both think of snowboards drinking like some sort of mountain drinks?

This is for the toughest slumps.

Like the toughest slopes.

Maybe that's why we thought of it.

I don't know, but first, what are you reading, Bria?

I am listening to a book that, oh, wait, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, bird book alert.

Oh, we don't have a slide whistle, but I don't have any.

I'm listening to a Helen McDonald book.

I'm listening to Vesper flights, read by Helen McDonald, which she's amazing.

We usually have never read H's for Hawk, but this one is one of those books.

You know, with liberal FM, you just get a certain number of credits, which I appreciate,

because I will just occasionally buy books and have them in my back catalog and I know

can start listening to them.

And this seems like a great way to get some animal facts.

So, Helen McDonald is a bad thing to get some animal facts.

It is a bad thing.

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