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 another box from the 2024 Reading Glass Glass Glass's Challenge,

Figuring out your reading appeal factors.

Plus, we solve a problem about figuring out your wheelhouse

and recommend dialogue heavy books.

But first, Bria, what are you reading?

Right before we start recording, Mallory said, everyone she knows is having the worst year, and I will say...

It is nuts.

Mine has been fine. I just, um, I'm just trying to shoot a movie right now and it's been harder than we expected as all

movies are and I can't concentrate on reading right now Mallory I'm having so

much trouble I've several books that I was trying to read couldn't get through

them so I was like what can I read that will like hold my attention, let my

brain work through something that's not like movie related problems and I

remembered I bought this book my friend suggested that is one of the yellow

smut books that everyone is reading.

It's apparently a very popular one and I was like this will be the right amount of

engaging but like not difficult to follow a story. So I'm reading Merrow by Tricia Wolf and

Bryn Weaver. I have not heard of those. I think you really like it. It's um it was like it

it keeps getting recommended to me by people who read

these sexy books this one is about two serial killer rivals who fall I don't know they

fall in love I haven't gone that far. They fall in lust. Yeah, yeah for sure and definitely for sure. One is I guess I think they're both forensic anthropologists meaning they work at a body farm, but then they both have decided to be serial killers.

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