You're 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 taking off another box on the 2023 Reading Glasses Glasses Challenge.

Read a book about a book?

Or a library? Or a book store?

We'll get into it.

Plus, we are testing out an unusual reading blanket.

Well, and some problem about finding new releases.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

OK, so I was...

Well, this is a story, but I was listening to a book called The Black Eyed Eyes First,

Black Chorus Cinema from Fawter to Oscar by Robin R.

Means Coleman, and Mark H. Harris, the narrator was Jamie Lincoln Smith.

I say was because it was so sad that I woke up.

I already took it back.

And the library had taken it back and I was like 80% of the way through.

So I may end up purchasing this.

This just happened to me.

Just happened.

So now I'm dealing with the fallout of that.

But this is great.

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