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 ticking off another box from our 2025 Reading Glasses, Glasses,

Classes Challenge.

Read a book with a two-person book club. Plus, we solve a problem about putting damaged books in a little free library, and we recommend books set in Scotland, but not in Edinburgh. By the way, y'all are going to be disappointed by my answer. But first... What are you reading, Briya? I am reading a comic book series that I think they've released four or five of the single issues by the time this comes out. It might all be released. I think

it's a mini series. I think it's only six issues. I'm not totally sure. But it's called,

We're Taking Everyone Down With Us by Matthew Rosenberg and the art is by Stefano Lindini. This book

is incredible, Mallory.

I am loving it so much.

And I rarely read things issue to issue, but someone told me about it.

My buddy told me about it.

And I was like, oh, that does sound like something I'd like.

So I bought the first issue.

And wow, I'm addicted to this book.

I'm so into it. It is basically, there's a 13-year-old girl who lives on this island with her sort of mad

scientist's father. But it's taken all very like seriously. Everything is is fairly grounded. But it is funny also.

And her father's killed, sort of, because these people come and raid the island. And her father

sort of killed, but this robot bodyguard is following her around as she like escapes. And it's

funny because he keeps calling her like the nicknames that he used for her. And it's not clear. I mean,

I'm not done with the book yet. So that's about where I'm at, I am right now where so it's like this girl and her bodyguard robot who she's not clear. I mean, I'm not done with the book yet. So that's about where I am right now.

So it's like this girl and her bodyguard robot who she sort of doesn't even want around most of the time.

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