You're listening to reading glasses, show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author and booktabower, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

In this episode, we're choosing our New Year's resolutions.

Mallory, I have a lot to say about this because I have not done my resolutions, like,

really yet.

But we're going to talk about it and maybe you can help me set a few. That's what the whole point of this episode is. That's the point. We're going to discuss it. Listen, you don't have to be ready for the show. You can just show up to the show. Yeah. We take all. What is it on the Statue of Liberty?

Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled readers.

Yeah, yeah.

We got you.

You're unplanned. You're unprepared. You're stressed out. You're tired. Plus, we give advice on what to do when reading makes you sleepy, which honestly, you've written into the right person. Maybe I'm here for you. I specific, I was like, As the sleepiest woman who's ever lived, I will say that is... And someone who reads a lot in bed. Yeah. Yes. Gosh, I have so much to say. You were an expert on this. All right. But first, Brea, what are you reading? What is your first book of 26, which is actually the last book of 2025? Because we're recording this in December. That's true. I am reading a book that my friend who lives in the UK recommended to me, she said, you have to be reading Catherine Chigi books. I think it's Chigy, not Chaiji. And she said, start with Pet. So this is one of those things you and I were just talking about. This came out a couple years ago where I feel like this is a big author, but maybe not in the States. People don't come at me. Don't tell me. It's a big author in the States and I didn't know. Maybe she has. Have you heard of her? No, neither of us have top reading podcasters. Priya and Mallory have not heard of her. So one of my best friends and asked me, she said, you're going to love it. You have to read it. It's a mystery thriller. I just started it. So I don't have that much to say about it. But it's a right now, it's about a young girl in New Zealand who is really drawn to her teacher who's like super glamorous. And they're like, oh, wow, if you get to be her pet, it's called pet. And if you get to be her like teacher, teacher's pet, all the girls are jealous of you. But then it causes, like, rivalry within the girls. It's compared to Picnic at Hanging Rock. Ooh. And... Do you love Picnic at Hanging Rock. Yeah. And it's set in New Zealand in 1984. That's the part I'm reading right now. But also apparently goes into 2014 as well. So, and I don't, I mean, I guess I've read books at New Zealand.

Have you read any books at New Zealand? Yeah. Okay. This is, I don't read them often. So this is exciting for me. Yeah. What are you reading? I am reading some smut. Some extracurricular smut. Should have guessed. Welcome to 2026, baby.

To the end of the year.

We're reaching that time where it's like the last half at December and you can just read whatever you want and I want to read some werewolf smut.

I am reading The Wolf King by Lauren Paltraman and oh baby.

So this is a romanticcy and it's about this world where there is like half people are

humans, half the people are werewolves, and they're at war with each other.

Humans live in the south and this land.

Werewolves live in the north.

And our main character is this human princess, and we are meeting her on the night before

her wedding.

She's about to be given away in this political move to this like really shitty prince

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