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 Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about books that have been on our TBR for a long time and why we keep them there.

The TBR long haulers.

Are we ever going to read them?

We don't know.

Plus, we recommend graphic novels and solve an audio book gifting problem.

First, Brea, what are you reading?

I'm listening to a book that I'm sure a lot of people have on their TBRs for the end of the year,

kind of listening to reading a thon that a lot of us do.

It's The Life Impossible by Matt Haig.

Oh, yeah.

Read by Joanna Lumley and Jordan Stevens.

It's a long one.

I didn't realize that when I'm looking at the time now.

I'm about halfway through.

Matt Haig wrote the Midnight Library, which was a lot of people's favorite book a couple years ago.

This is about a woman and retired math teacher who suddenly this friend who she knew but didn't know well,

she gets to notice that she's been left this woman's house in Abiza.

And she's like, I guess I'm going to go and see what this house is.

And she arrives and this is this run-down little house.

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