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 Briea Grant, filmmaker and E- Reader.

This episode we're talking about our most anticipated books for August into September,

so get out you a little pieces of paper.

Whatever you write and put on,

that pre-order button.

Yeah, get ready because we're going to talk about books we're looking forward to but hey

check those show notes because there's more than what we're talking about.

Oh God, please check the show notes or I will cry.

We're testing out Coaster Bookmarks and we're solving a bookish problem about buying hard covers.

The first reader, what are you reading?

I just started reading a book. It was

immediately returned to the library so I can't turn my candle off right now but I

don't get my kindle on. It's called Loneliness and Company by Charlie

Deeroff or Dairff. It is about this woman named Lee who was part of this program,

this government program, it's like a near future New York and she's part of this government program where she's like she goes to this

program and you participate in it and then they place you for a year in like a company.

And she is like the top of her program.

She's the best there is. She goes out of our way above and beyond and then she kind of gets placed in the sort of unknown company in like it's not, she doesn't even know what they do and she was really surprised by that. And then it turns out her

role is to train this AI on how to be a friend and that's about all I know but

it has something to do with with government's trying to solve

loneliness. Oh, but it's also... Oh, I think I've heard of this book. Seems like it could... There's definitely

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