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

Brier Grant, filmmaker and E-Reder. This episode we're talking about our

favorite books set during the summer. Plus we solve a book tech problem about searching inside

audio books. That's a tough one. We need some help and debate about asking

librarians for book recommendations. But first Bria what are you reading? I am listening to a book that came out last year that I cannot believe I missed because it is...

I'm very curious to hear what this is. I'm listening to Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. Oh yeah did you read it? No but big bushy book last year.

Okay because I didn't totally understand what it was about so Naomi Klein who wrote the shock doctrine and is known as this very big anti-capitalist writer.

But there's also an evil nial.

A few years ago she was getting confused with Naomi, Wolf.

I think my mom was reading this and telling me about it and I was like oh yeah I was

meant to read that and she was saying it was really good and she kind of uses this

she talks about it as a way to look at a lot of phenomenons that are happening

right now and particularly during the

pandemic. First of all like Jamie Wolf got really into like Q-Anon and

conspiracy theories and so every day Naomi Klein would get on the internet people

would be like what you're saying is dangerous and he was like

I talk about like anti-capitalism like what are you talking about and like so it was this it

became this thing where she was like yeah I know I always know what

Naomi wolf is up to but then she got kind of like a little

bit obsessed with like what Naomi Wolf is up to and ended up listening to many many

hours of like right wing like all sorts of like right wing stuff because she like

but she was like she wanted to know and she was also working on this book right so she

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