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 is our 2023 holiday gift guide. We've got gift books, we've got bookish gifts, we've all the things

for all the people in your life. But first Briar, what are you reading? I just read a really

great graphic novel called The Night Eaters,

Volume One, she eats the night.

I don't know what any of this is, but I had been for it.

Written by Marjorie M. Lou and illustrated by Sonata Kata, it came out last year. It's great, Mallory, you'd really like this

actually, and I would lend it to you if I hadn't borrowed it from somebody else, which I am going to return it,

just so everyone.

Oh my God I can't later on in a few episodes we're going to get our feedback about being a book thief and there is a lot of it.

We have opinions.

So many so many gentle accident or what do we call them gentle

thieves? Yeah a lot of gentle thieves out there. This is okay so there's these

twins they are Chinese American and they have this mother who has not been very close to them,

has been really tough on them their whole lives and she and her husband moved, and their dad,

I guess, her husband moved from Hong Kong and they live in this sort of a cul-de-sac and in the cul-de-sac there is this house next door that has been

destroyed overrun like I think a murder happened there like some horrible things happened there and now you're in.

My little antenna just came up out of the back of my head.

And then things are revealed about the mother through this house and then because they're going to fix

it up and they're gonna make it better.

The explanation on Goodries actually doesn't tell you that much.

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