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 taking off a box on the 2024 Reading Glass's Glass's Challenge,

read a debut novel.

Plus we talk about buying a new e-reader.

That's me.

Somebody here left their e-reader on a southwest flight

and they could not find it.

And we solve a problem about grief-related reader guilt.

But first, Bria, what are you reading?

Let me tell you.

Let me tell you. I've just finished a great book, a book I was really looking for

into called The Age of Magical Overthinking Notes on Modern Irrationality

by Amanda Montel.

Wow, this book was designed for me.

For all of you who are always like,

oh, I want one of Bria's books that are about the brain

and the way we think, just about like thinking

and why we do the stuff we do this is it this is it

Madamantel wrote that book cultish which I thought was really great this one is more

about it's stuff we talk about on the show. It's like the Suncoss fallacy, the

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