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 Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about our most anticipated books for May and June.

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The reason we're doing these is because during our Fun Drive, this was one of our goals.

If we got a certain number of people, I don't remember how many people that was now.

700?

Was it?

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It's a lot of work for Mallory.

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Mallory does a lot of research on this.

And we're going to talk about the books we're looking forward to in May and June.

Plus, we give out some book hangover advice.

There's no raw eggs in this. But first, Brea, what are you reading? I just finished a book that's a very me book that I think you recommended. It's called The Day of the World Stop Shopping. No. How Indian consumerism saves the environment and ourselves. It's by J.B. McKinnon. I love... This is definitely a you book, though. I know. And I've recommended it to so many people now. It's a very, it's a book. I, wow, I just really liked this. It's basically about consumerism, but also the author posits this idea of what if there was one day we all just stopped shopping. So basically, obviously we know we consume a lot. But do you know we like certain things we consume like clothes and things?

Oh yeah.

We consume like almost twice as much as we did just 10 years ago.

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