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 having a State of the Union for Readers.

State of the Readers...

State of the readers... state of the book for readers, and we're seeing how much

reading people actually do. Plus we solve a problem about talking about spicy reads and we're recommending translated books.

But first, Bria, what are you reading?

I just read a book that's been on my backlist for a minute.

It's Mary by Nat Cassidy, which we talked before we

started recording, and you haven't read it, which I was surprised by.

Yeah, it's, you know, it's funny because now we were talking a little bit about it and I think part of the reason why I haven't read it is something that you're going to mention.

There is some, yeah, major content warnings.

Yeah, so check those, y'all.

Check them before you jump into Mary,

which the subtitle here is an awakening of terror,

which I didn't realize, it's a horror book.

It's about it, it's about...

But it sounds like that's a good subtitle for this book.

It is, it is.

It is about this woman who is middle age and she

sort of she is described as very like invisible right like people don't

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