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, hey, it's a new year.

Happy New Year, everybody.

We're talking about our 2025 reader resolutions and how we did on 24's.

Plus, we deliver a ruling.

And if you're responsible for what someone buys from the bookstore with the gift card

you gave them, and what if it's a child, a young person, and they're reading something

that's a little smutty?

What happens? Are you to blame?

We got thoughts. But first, Brea, what are you reading? I am listening to a book called Why We Remember Unlocking

Memory's Power to Hold On to What Matters by Charon Ranganoth. It is, you know, I like memory stuff and brain

nonfiction. And this falls into that category.

It's great.

It's about not just like our memories, but the way our memories are shaped by various things.

For example, if you're reading a book here in this studio and then you went and read the same

book somewhere else, you would actually retain different information because it would feel like you're reading some new stuff.

And you would retain different information because the location you're reading in is different, even though it's the same book.

That's bonkers.

There's also like a lot of stuff about like how we make decisions about, you know, you walk into the house and you don't remember where you put your keys when you walked in.

And the reason for that is that

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