You're listening to reading glasses a show about book culture and literary life

designed to help you read better. I'm a writer, filmmaker, and book devour

Mallory O'Mara and I'm Gray Grant, actors filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode we're talking about literature from the United Kingdom and interviewing writer and

podcaster Claire Hanscombe.

But first, what are you reading, Bruh?

I just finished a book that is fulfilling something on my

Red Heart of Challenge, which now I'm like down to the wire. I have to like really just keep

reading. Although two months left, Bria. I know, I know, but I started reading something

that's not going to fulfill anything, was I don't know maybe a mistake

But I finished a book I finished behold the dreamers which was my Oprah's book club book

by Imbolo Im Bue, and I it had been on my list already, my wish list.

It was one of those books that I felt like people kept recommending it to me so much that I would go to the library, type it in

and be like, no, that's already on my wish list.

Because it was like I checked more than a few times to make sure it was on my wish list because

people kept recommending it

and there's a reason it is incredible it was amazing it's about um and

two immigrants from Cameroon coming to America during the financial crisis of 2008.

Well they've been there they've been there but basically one gets a job

working for a guy who is works for Lehman Brothers.

And so it's this like really interesting experience

of the financial crash during that time

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