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.

I'm Brea Grant filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about how we're tracking our books for the new year.

Plus, we're going over our cop piles from last year.

That's right.

We're going to tell you what that is.

If you were just listening to the show for the first time, we're going to tell you what it is. And we're testing out a bookish candle that I think smells like the mall. Oh, yeah. But first, Brieho, what are you reading? I am listening to a book that a lot of people

listened to this last year.

It's called Abundance by Ezra Klein

and Derek Thompson.

Did you listen to this last year.

It's called Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Did you listen to this one? No.

So basically it's about, look, we're living in a time where nothing is affordable. Everything's bad.

Everything's bad. And the question is like, why is that? And like, what can we do to change that?

And it may be answers that we all find

a little bit uncomfortable and right now I'm in a section about housing and like how used to

you could buy a house with two two years of your salary you know and now that is not the situation

and like why when did that change what made that change what made us be like oh houses

should be like a big investment?

Like what changed like in the economy, but also like the way we view resources. And getting into

some stuff that's like, you know, maybe go like, yeah, you know what? Maybe I'm doing this

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