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 recommending books for every mood.

This episode was so hard.

This episode took me no less than 30 years to do.

This episode was like a fun idea that I had.

This is how we know we're not mood readers, but we are trying for y'all.

We're trying for you.

Yes.

Well, someone wrote in and a Max Von member wrote in with an idea. And I was like, oh, well, let's do that. This is a fun idea. This will be a fun thing and tears, sweat, blood, but it's all for you folks. It's all for you. But first, Brea, what are you reading? I am reading a book by an author who I am learning to love. It's called When the Wolf

Comes Home by Nat Cassidy. Oh yeah. You love this author? I loved nestlings. I thought it was

amazing. It is really good. I just read the description of what the book is about that's on

good reads and it tells you nothing. So I'm going to tell you a little bit and

I don't think these are spoilers. Okay. Because it's called when the wolf comes home. It's about...

I love the way you say wolf. Wolf. When the wolf comes home. When the wolf, woof, I do say wolf.

Like a dog. When the wolf comes out.

So it's about this girl who is kind of a failed actress living in Los Angeles.

And she is working this crap job and she's cleaning behind the toilet one night and she gets

pricked.

Oh, it's a literal crap job.

Oh, no, no.

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