You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author and booktabower, Mallory O'Mara.

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

This episode, we're taking off another box from the 2024 Reading Glasses, Glasses, Chalange, Glasses, Glasses, glasses challenge. Glasses, glasses.

Pick a book based on the cover.

Plus, we test a bookish candle and recommend Y.A. graphic novels.

But first, Breer, what are you reading?

I just finished a book that was on both of our, was it on both of our anticipated books

episode?

I think it was.

Model Home by River Solomon.

This was a dual pick.

I've got some things to say right now.

And they're all positive.

But I will tell you, for those of you who read or we talked about, we're like, it's a haunted house book by River Solomon.

It is a haunted house book, but it is not what you were thinking.

This is a literary fiction book.

And with haunted house elements in it, I loved this book.

I could not stop thinking about this book.

I had to get through this book to find out what happened.

The writing is fantastic.

It's beautiful.

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