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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm author and book devour, Mallory O'Mara. |
| 0:14.8 | And I'm Brea Grant filmmaker and e-reader. |
| 0:16.9 | This episode, we're talking about our most anticipated books for September and October, a very exciting season for books. |
| 0:24.3 | So exciting. |
| 0:25.2 | There's like a very long list. |
| 0:26.9 | We'll get into it. |
| 0:27.9 | Mallory is like, okay, October, we're just going to speed run through. |
| 0:31.4 | We have so many friends of the show that have books coming out, very exciting. |
| 0:34.4 | Great and exciting. |
| 0:35.4 | Yes. |
| 0:35.9 | Ready those TBRs, folks. |
| 0:57.3 | Ready your little Libby pressing fingers. Get ready to put things on hold at the library. But first, what are you reading, Brad? I am reading, I'm rereading a book. Oh, you're not a big rereader. I'm not a big rereader. But my book club picked the Goodhouse by Tanana Reeve-Doo. So good. And I've read it before. I've read it, but it's been a while. It's maybe been, I read it while we were doing the show. So it's been within the |
| 1:02.1 | last eight years. But it's been a minute. And I decided to listen to it this time. It's a great |
| 1:08.1 | book to listen to. I'm right. That doesn't surprise me. Yeah. So it's read by |
| 1:12.7 | Robin Miles, who is a big audiobook narrator. She has done a bunch of in K. Jemison books. She's |
| 1:19.6 | done a bunch of Octavia Butler books. She's very prolific. But it's a great book. If you |
| 1:25.3 | don't know anything about The Good House. Haunted House book. It's a haunted house book. But, okay, so. It's got a lot of other flavors in it. So Tonari actually came to our book club, which was very exciting. And she said something I thought was really interesting. She said, it's a haunted house, but it's actually a demon possession story. So it's like you think it's a haunted house, sort of, but it turns into demon possession, |
| 1:48.9 | but it's kind of like a demon possession wrapped in a haunted house. |
| 1:52.1 | So it's all set in this very small town called Sakajua in Washington State. |
| 1:58.1 | And it's about this woman who, at the very beginning, this is not a spoiler, |
| 2:03.8 | she loses her son really tragically. And it's told through his point of view going back in time |
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