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 to hour, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Bria Graham filmmaker and E-reader.

This episode, Q the Slide Whistles.

It's our 2024 Best Books of the Year Half-Time Show.

Brie and I are in cool outfits.

We are dancing, a coordinated dance holding books.

If you could only see it, the medium of podcasting is so limited.

We are here, we're going to tell you our best books of the year.

So far we have top seven for both of us.

Mm-hmm. But first, what are you reading, Brea?

Okay, so I'm going to talk about it in a minute, but I'm hosting this women and horror novelist panel.

Yes. I said that in a weird way. A women and horror panel at Skylight Books on June 28th, if you're in LA, please come.

You should, it's gonna be a bangar

if and and so I was reading all of the women's books who are on the panel which is

very exciting and I got to read the sequel to Knights Edge by Liz Karen.

I know you love that book.

Yeah, and it's called First Light.

So the original one, the first one was about this woman named Mia,

who, although she was in her 20s, it's sort of a coming of age book for her because her whole life has been overshadowed by the fact that her mother is a vampire, and she lives in this world in which vampires do exist but they're kind of ostracizing

they're not and people they're not like allowed in certain places and she has

always been her mother's source of food where she would she would drain herself for

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