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 Omera.

And I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode is another edition of Solving Book Club Problems.

Mo Book Clubs, m club problems. Mo book clubs, no problems.

Plus we recommend books set in restaurants or breweries.

Ooh, that's fun.

But first, Bria, what are you reading?

I am reading, well, we're almost a Halloween season, but I'm reading almost

Okay, Mallory sorry Mallory starts Halloween because to me I'm wearing a jack-o-

Jackalandered on my head, but I'm reading it well this may be a scary book for some people. I just read all fours by Miranda July. I love

Miranda July. She is a hero of mine. I think she is so fantastic. This is about it's not I had to remind myself multiple times. This is not an

autobiography. This is not a memoir. Wow. A an artist who does multidisciplinary stuff

like we're in July. Is the protagonist named Schm Miranda?

Yeah, who has a husband and has a child and the husband's also in the arts.

But whatever, anyway, it's not, it's not.

It's a fictional book and it is about, at the beginning,. She's like I'm going to drive from LA to New York and that's going to be a big deal for her and she makes it to Monrovia which is 30 minutes outside of LA

That's where my that's where Jeremy lives. Oh really?

And she decides, you know, I'm just going to go spend the night this hotel for one night.

And then she's like, oh, maybe I'll just stay in this hotel an extra day and tell my family I'm still driving to New York.

And maybe I'll redo the whole inside of this

hotel to look exactly how I want. Spend tens of thousands of dollars on that and then

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