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 Brian Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

On this episode, we're talking about what we picture when we read.

So you're reading and you're like, what are you seeing in your mind's eye? Everyone is different and it's so fascinating to me. It is really interesting and it's interesting to see where we have parallels Mallory. That was something I was surprised about. Plus we debate who should check out large print books from the library and recommend compelling middle grade books. But first, Brea, what are you reading?

Okay. check out large print books from the library and recommend compelling middle grade books.

But first, Brea, what are you reading?

Okay. I am the luckiest book podcaster in the world because I got an early copy of the new Daniel Krause. It's called the sixth Nick. N-I-K Nick.

It comes out in June.

I loved Whale Fall, and then last year, Angel Down was one of my favorite books of the year.

And so I got an early copy of this from the author, which is so nice of him.

Okay, he's venturing into hard sci-fi, which is basically the book I've been waiting for as a Daniel Krauss. Did you jump up and flick your heels? This book is wild. This book is, okay, I don't even

know where to begin because the world building is so fascinating and so big, but I'm going to

tell you what it says on the description because I'm

about halfway through and a lot has happened that's not on this description. But essentially,

there is a young girl who's nine, who's part of this sort of like cult thing where they

raise these young women with like modifications in their brains to be super empathetic

and be able to read people essentially really well. And then they go and do like missions at age

nine and their missions always end in their death. So trigger warnings for that, but also trigger

warnings for literally anything you can think of because this book is

the craziest book I've ever read. And I read a lot of wild books. And there are things

happening where I'm like, oh, no, oh, you didn't do this. Oh my God. It's wild. So at some point

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