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. This episode

we're talking about our 2024 Reader resolutions and how we did on 2023s.

How did we do?

Plus a special little New Year's segment

about books we are looking forward to.

I thought you were going to just stop there like yes it's about books.

About this is a whole podcast about books but also that segment is also about books.

The ones that we're most looking forward to in 2024.

But first, Bria, what are you reading?

So my friend who runs my book club, got me a present for my birthday,

and I just started it, but I'm really enjoying it. It's called you've maybe read this. It's called

Murder at the Circus and it's by Lee Strauss. It is not part of the Ginger Gold Mysteries. This is actually

number 17 in the book series but I guess she's read like all of them she loves

them but she like likes this one a lot and you know it's a circus it's basically

a circus cozy mystery okay I am, okay, I am interested.

Okay, I just started it, but from what I can tell,

this woman, Ginger Reed, I'm kind of looking at the description

whose name is Lady Gold, she has a son who runs away to the circus,

and then there is like a murder that happens there and

then she comes and like solves it so it's like a murder cozy

a cozy murder at the circus baby.

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