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 Brea Grant filmmaker and e-reader. This episode, we're ticking off a box from the

2024 Reading Glass's Challenge.

The first tick, the first box.

First tick, first tick of the year.

It is read a book by a non-binary author.

Plus, we test out a multi-page bookmark, which I have thoughts about, and

solve a problem about recommending older books. But first, Breyer, what are you reading?

Okay, so, Mallory, I started reading this book, Edenville, a novel by Sam Rebeline? Why does this sound so familiar? It came out last year. It is a horror book. I'm surprised you didn't read it. I was wondering if you had someone recommended it to me and I was like huh that sounds really weird and I'm so

It's really scary to me and so I'm having trouble reading it at night.

So what I ended up doing at a long drive so I ended up also getting it on Libra

FM use code glasses if you go sign up. So it's read by Charlie Thurston who does a great job. But okay, I have two, first of all let me tell you what it's about. There's a man named Cam and he published this novel called Shattered Man and he's not really having, he's published this novel called Shattered Man, and he's not really having trouble like writing his next one.

And it's from his point of view and his girlfriend's point of view.

And his girlfriend, basically these people approach him and they're like,

we love your book, and we want you to come, like,

be a guest lecturer at our university.

Like, we think your book is so amazing.

But this is like a book that didn't sell very well it's not that big of a book and his

girlfriend's like what they want you to come like be an artist and residence at this

university and she's like but she doesn't know how to say like,

I don't think you're this famous

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