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 Bria, grant filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, we're recommending books with short chapters.

Y'all love them, you want them, they want them, they need need them they have to have them we're

reviewing a book stand that kind of looks like a spider and we're solving a problem

about reading the classics but first Bria what are you reading I am reading I'm

listening to I just was on a long road trip I was just

telling Mallory about and I started listening to sociopath by Patrick Gagni I think so

that's what you wanted to listen to while you were driving across Texas.

Hell yeah, I just came out.

It's a memoir by a woman who is a sociopath.

And it starts with her as a child.

And so she is actually now a therapist who works with people who have

sociopath or have personality disorders I believe and she just talks she just

knew when she was a kid she was like I am not like other kids I am different I don't feel things the way other kids feel

There's definitely something up with me and then she gets confirmed by with someone that she is a with an actual therapist that she is a sociopath and but people are not studying

Sociopathy like it's it's like it actually wasn't even in the dictionary when she started trying to look it up.

It had been kind of moved over into anti-personality disorder or a psychopath.

But she was like, I think I'm not quite this and I'm not quite this.

I think I'm something else.

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