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 Briie Grant filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, oh hey, it's one of our most popular episodes.

It is our anticipated books for March and April. Look, we know what month it is okay. Don't come at us. We know what day this is coming out. I wish we were just talking about this. I'm trying, I'm handing in my second book of the year so far. I am really, this episode took me nine hours to write. I just told Brea, I've been putting it off because March is one of the big book months. And this episode took an extra hour to write. These normally take me eight hours. This took me nine. And I missed a whole day of writing just for this. Just for you, folk. But it's worth it. There's a lot of good stuff in there. But first, Briya,a what are you reading i am listening to a book for my book club it is friday i got to finish this book by sunday it is going to be

a long weekend baby um i'm reading a book that came out maybe last year the year before it's called

coffin moon by keith russon oh yeah Chelsea was telling us about this. Yeah, the narrator's Pete Cross.

So my book club, we were, we, we, we just had Chelsea on to talk about the book club, talk about

the losers book club. And this was one that I will say this book has come up a number of times

with various authors who are on to talk about, like, we always

ask people what they're reading or what they would recommend. I remember Paul Tremblay recommended

this one and a couple other people did. So we were like, we have to read this book. So it's set in

the 70s in the Pacific Northwest and it is about this guy who just got home from Vietnam and he has his 13 year old

niece with him that he's raising now because something happened to your family. And then he

runs this bar and basically, wow, okay, I did not know this when I started reading the book,

but a vampire walks in and things go wild. That sounds like a joke. Yeah, whatever. A vampire walks into a bar and things go wild. It's really great. I would say, like, it's, I love that it's set in the Pacific War Northwest. That's been like a really fun location. It has like a real Stephen King quality to it, which I wonder if that's why, I I mean because we read a lot of Stephen King in the book club and why people keep recommending it to us but it's just a really great it's a great character exploration so far and yeah I'm really loving it and I have to read it in the next 48 hours so it will will be a long evening tonight. What are you reading,

Mallory? I'm reading some historical fiction. I am reading When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by

Margaret Verbal. And so this is the kind of, this is definitely language forward historical fiction

in the way that like the author had to learn a lot of facts for this book and you have too but I I actually really love it if you are down for that kind of historical fiction like

it takes place in Nashville in the 1920s main character is this Cherokee woman she's a horse diver so

she works at this it's not a circus it's. It's like, it's like a...

It's like Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken.

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