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.

In this episode, we're talking about the length of time read versus books read as a metric.

Did that make sense how I said that? I said it in a weird way. But okay, the time it takes

you to read a book versus like the number of books you've read. Interesting new way to track your

reading. Plus we solve a book tech problem about library ebooks and debate putting smut in your little free library.

Should I texted me only about it last night?

But first, Brea, what are you reading?

I just finished a book by Friend of the Show.

It's, what a thrill.

I got to read an early copy of Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman, who's coming on our show. We love Clay so much. I'm so jealous. I haven't got my arc of this yet. Well, it's fantastic. And also, well, I'll plug because I'm doing something with him about the book on February 18th. But first, I'll tell you about the book. It's called Devil Inside. And it basically is,

do you remember, I haven't told him this, but do you remember that movie Fallen with Denzel Washington in it? Yes, weirdly. I watched that last year. Okay, it's a good movie. It's kind of people to talk about it that much. This is basically if that was a horror romance. So, God, I love Clay so much man falls in in love with a girl. Turns out the girl is a demon inside someone else's body. It's happened to all of us. The tail is all this time. And the demon hops

from body to body. And it is, somehow it is, it really does that. It walks that fine line where it is a horror book. There are things that are scary. There are things that are supernatural. There are things that are like, you know, strange and unnerving. But also, it is a romance. Like, it is a true romance. They do fall in love. Romance readers would not be disappointed if you can handle the horror so i honestly this sounds like

like my dream book i'm so excited you you would love it and uh clay i don't know why you haven't

sent mallory a copy me a copy i do think he sent us e-arks oh maybe i read it but i loved it and

just a plug we're doing something called date nine with the devil the Devil on February 18th at 5 p.m.

on Instagram Live. I don't know if that's Pacific. Oh.

Such a good. Eastern, I guess. Eastern. Oh, okay. So for L.A. people, it's lunch with the devil.

Yeah, lunch with the devil. We're going to talk about horror romance and this book. The book does not come out for a few months, but we're going to talk about it. Pre-order that. It would be really fun. And you should pre-order it. If you're a horror romance person, the book is sexy. The book is fun, and it's very romantic. And I just loved it. I could not put it down. I was talking about it a lot. Like people were, I kept going to bring it up to people. Like, I just thought it was so wonderful.

What are you reading?

I'm reading. put it down. I was talking about it a lot. Like people were, I kept going to bring it up to people.

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