You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, we're ticking off another box on the Reading Glass's 2019 Reader Challenge,

which is relaxing with books.

And we brought on a special guest, and actress Lynn Chen narrator of the

Crazy Rich Asians audio book she's here to talk about all those things and also

relaxing with books everything but first what are you reading Briam I

finished this book yesterday because I started reading it and was like,

got to finish this book, it's too involved.

I read it over the course of a couple nights and then just powered through.

It's called The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker.

How have I never heard of it?

It was on a bunch of like exciting books of 2019.

I think it's the first book I read that was published in 2019.

Someone's going to be like, no, that you've read other books but it's

about a disease an illness that has already in the Bria wheelhouse yeah very much

though in southern in a small town in Southern California and basically people fall

asleep and then they don't wake up.

And they just keep sleeping. Oh, okay. No, they're sleeping. They just keep sleeping and sleeping.

And it's one of those very, it's a cool apocalyptic book.

But this is like soft core apocalypse.

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