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 O'Mara and I'm Bria Grant filmmaker and E-reader. This episode we're

talking about the perks of using an E-reader, something I feel like close to my

heart, giving advice on gifting books and

we're recommending books from authors with big backlists. I like big backlists and

I cannot learn. But first Bria already reading.

I'm reading and I guess I'll be reading this forever for the next several months.

I don't know.

I'm reading the last Crescent City House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Moss.

Oh wow. As people might know I read the last one fairly recently and now I've

started reading this one my friend who wants me to read them with her read it in like three days

when it came out I'm maybe 50% of the way through it maybe 50% of the way here's the

thing it's impossible to describe these books unless you've read the

first two, which I will say kind of gives me faith in readers where it's like, wow, you have to do so

much work just to read this book.

And that just means like I'm kind of impressed

with like the fandom and that people stick in there

and that, you know, I feel like we're at this like,

I maybe have said this on the show before,

where we're at this like stage in the world where people are like oh like people have no

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