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 discussing how we're tracking our reading in 2025.

Even though I don't want this year to be. I want it to be 2026 already. You want to move. You want to move on. I'm done with this year.

We're recording a new studio and I realize I have to turn my head in a weird way to talk to you,

but I think it's okay. But you know, we have a guest here actually. So we're going to look at the guest. We have special in-studio guest, Tracy Thomas,

here from the Stacks podcast. Hey, thank you for coming. Thank you for having me.

Classers are going to freak out about this. People have been asking for you for a while.

Really? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Thank you people who have been asking. Those of you who haven't been

asking. Get it together. War. But first, before we get into anything, Brea, what are you reading?

I am reading, okay, this is a straight, so we're recording this the week, second week of fires, week two of fires.

Yeah, it's not 2025 anymore, it's just a year of fire.

And it's a book I've been wanting to read for a while And I was like, this seems like an appropriate book for this time.

I'm reading The Survivalists.

Oh, like a Shauna Collie.

Yeah.

I read it last year when it came out.

Okay, yeah, I've been wanting to read it.

It's been on my list and I thought, okay, it's a book about Doomsday Preppers, right?

And so that's so I started reading it. I'm only about a fourth of the way through, but it's about a lawyer.

And you can help me because I don't know everything.

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