You're listening to reading classes, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour Malory Omera.

And I'm Bria Grant, actress, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode we're making some reading New Year's resolutions and testing out ways to track

your reading. But first... What are you reading, Bria? Oh you reading oh I am reading oh I didn't think here

look up how to pronounce this woman's name but it's called chemistry oh by by

wicky wing yeah holy shit yeah, that was good. I'm not sure how you totally pronounce her name, but that seems right. It's a big buzzy book of 2017. Big buzzy book. And also, it's not like the typical book that I would normally pick up because you know there's no dragons

There's no science fiction no but it's about a woman who is a graduate student in chemistry and her boyfriend proposes to her and it's just

and it feels it's written from a first person perspective and it feels like you're reading someone's

like daily journal about what they're concerned about.

And so, Mallory, are the cats going to be too distracting for you?

Speaking of you, I feel like the cats are too distracting for you to do the podcast here.

This is the first time we've ever recorded the show at my apartment.

Yeah.

I just have cats.

Now I may have to do, I may have to call it off because you're too distracted by

your own cats.

Right now. All right, what are you reading, Mallory?

I am reading The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne, which is just punching me directly in the heart.

It is amazing.

It is a big-ass book.

It is a big-ass book. It is a huge, it's a big 2017 release by the guy who did the boy in the striped

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