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 Omero and I'm Bria Grant filmmaker and E- Reader. This

episode we're talking about reading holiday themed books not just Christmas

but we are going to talk about Christmas, because obviously it's

one of the big ones. Plus, we're solving a book tech problem about reader pain and giving advice on reading

in the

Trio what are you reading? I'm reading a book that you're also reading. Oh my God, while we were doing the the trivia event last night

we realized that we are both reading the exact same book.

But you're not going to talk about this on this episode.

No, I'll talk about a different book, but I will co-sign what you're going to say.

Yeah, so I am reading, I think I'm a little bit further than you, and it's called

Jonathan Abernathy, you are kind by Molly McGee. So it's about this guy as you know

Jonathan Abernathy. About a guy. And he people call him Abernathy actually until this moment I

kind of forgot his first name was Jonathan.

And he is in debt.

He has like most of a lot of loan debt and then his parents died and left medical debt which which we actually when read an interview with Molly McGee

because I was curious about that aspect of it.

You actually are not you can't take on someone's medical debt like your

parents medical debt that does not pass to you, but people will

harass you for that, like he will get debtors calling you at all times.

Anyway, so there's a lot of that happening.

He's very fucked.

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