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 debating about gifting books to non-readers.

Should you do it?

Should you encourage them to read?

We've talked about this in the past, but we got a specific question about this. Yeah, and this is going to require some debate. It is, it is. Plus, we give advice on when you receive a book gift you don't want, what do you do? And we recommend locked room mysteries. First, Brea, what are you reading? So I just finished the fourth in a comic book series from Dark Horse.

It's going to come out as a trade in September.

It's called Barstow by Friend of the Pod, Rebecca McKendry and Dave McKendry.

Have you read this?

No, I have not, but I do love Rebecca. She's amazing. Rebecca is a very prolific filmmaker, greenwriter, and comic book writer, and prose writer. She does it all, and also a podcaster, and I've been on her show a few times. This is a really fun. I read them all. Art, by the ways, by Tyler Jenkins. I read all of the books. Like I said, they're going to come

out in the fall so you can wait for that collection. Or I read a lot of my comics digitally now,

so I just get them as they kind of come out. But this takes place in the middle of the Mojave

desert. Wildly, I was driving. I know you were just there recently. And I was reading

bar show, which was very exciting. So it's a horror mystery sort of spooky in the middle of the desert, which I love a desert horror.

Yeah, if there's sand around, you are so pumped.

So spooky.

Because there's something about, there's nowhere to hide, you know?

You can see where everything is.

It's very dry.

Very extremely dry, which I don't know if that makes for good about horror.

But it's basically something sort of demonic is happening in this small town.

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