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 Graham Filmmaker and E-Reader.

This episode, we're actually going to break down reading glasses. We're going to talk about ourselves. Welcome. We have a lot of new listeners. We wanted to do an intro for the show. And then for old ones as well, like you've been listening for a while and you're like, sometimes stuff comes up and you're like, wait, who are these people? Like we explain concepts of the show we talk about. We're going to reveal our longstanding jokes.

Yeah.

Or talk about them and explain them to you. We're also going to go through the Glasser Hall of Fame and name our retired book recommendations. Because there's so many books we used to recommend. And we're like, you know, we've said pre-study too many times. We can't talk about priest daddy anymore. So there are books like that. So if you already know all this stuff about us, stick around because we're going to talk about all the retired books that we have.

But also it's just a great way. You know, so when people are like, I like reading glasses, but like what's this, what's this show about? You can point them to this episode. But also I think you're going to find out new stuff about your friends, Briya and Mallory. We're going to rekindle our romance right here. But first, Brea, what are you reading? I am reading a book that was on our anticipated books list.

It's, And Mallory. We're going to rekindle our romance right here. But first, Brea, what are you reading?

I am reading a book that was on our anticipated books list.

It's a midnight pastry shop called Hua Waldong by Lee Anwa.

It is...

Definitely a Brea book.

Wow. Such a cute book.

It's translated by Slin Jung.

I think that it doesn't say that on goodreads,

but it says that when I Google it. But it is, oh wow, so cute. What a cute little cozy book,

very much in the vein of before the coffee gets cold or something like that if you love a magical realism book. Essentially, this young woman, she inherits this bakery from her grandmother. And she's like, I guess I'm going to sell it. I don't know what I'm going to do with it. And their grandmother's like, no, left instructions for her. And she was like, no, you have to open it. And it can only be open from 10 p.m. to midnight every night. Oh, I remember talking about. yes, okay. Yeah. Also, it's in, like, a lot of debt.

They don't have any money.

And this woman's like, I don't know.

I guess I'm going to try to see if I understand my grandmother a little bit.

And then the first night she's there, first of all, this shaman walks in.

And she's like, okay.

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