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 Omera.

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

Hey, it's our biggest episode of the year.

Hit it, Mallory, hit it with that, hit it with the slide whistle.

It's our top books of 2023.

Wow, wow, wow.

Whole episode dedicated to it.

Can't wait to talk about these.

We care all year for it. Yeah, we're ready. We're ready. But first, but what are you reading?

Okay, I'm reading a 2023 book. I'm listening to a 2023 book because I didn't finish it before. We recorded this episode. Listen y'all we're all busy. It's the

holidays. I don't know there's stuff to be done. I am listening to Elliot Page's

uh... Memoir Page boy, which he reads.

It's great.

It is, it's interestingly written because it's like, it's a memoir, but it's like,

both like his life as an actor and then also growing up but it's not chronological.

So it kind of like jumps it'll be like the first role I did was this and like these are

the people I met and like this is the person I had a crush on but I'm it also like

jump to like oh here's what happened at like the

premiere of Juno or whatever. So it's like, it really goes back and forth between just like

his life and his childhood and it's just a really well-written memoir and he reads it

which is really it's like you're just hanging out with the late page he's telling you all

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