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

to help you read better.

I'm author and booked about our Malereo Mara, and I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about vampire books, we realize we've never even done a fucking

vampire book episode.

I know, I was going to make a vampire noise, but I don't know what vampire noise is.

It's funny because we both made a face when we did that, and I wish that this was great

for a podcast.

Recorded.

Yeah, we both imagined the face of like a vampire from the original Buffy the Vampire

Slayer movie.

Yeah.

We're also interviewing Mike Chen about his vampire book, Vampire Weekend, and we're

talking a listener problem about book tracking.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I just finished a little book, I call it little, because it's novella, hey, checking off

one of the reading glasses, glasses challenge, reading novella.

It is the number eight in the wayward children's series.

I figured this would be one.

Lost in the moment and found, I forgot, this would course me the novella, I read the first

novella I read this year.

It's my first 2023 book, because you know, I usually spend the first part of the year kind

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