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 our most anticipated books for the start of 2025. Yes, we're already in January,

but we're doing January, February, March, here we are. Plus, we got some big fucking news.

Bigest, one of the biggest pieces of news we've ever have. Stick around. We're going to talk about

it right after we do our feedback. It's going to be very soon. Don't miss it. Wow, big, big, big news coming from us. It's good. It's positive. Something positive for your year. And spicy. And oh, hey. And also we have our friend of the show, our pal Clay McLeod Chapman to talk about his new book. Wake up and open your eyes. It's so fucking good.

But first, Brea, what are you reading?

I'm reading a little book called Daughter of Daring by Mallory Amara.

Mallory, I'm loving this book.

I'm about a third of the way through.

It's so wonderful.

Mallory and I were doing an event for the book on February 23rd.

At the Las Vegas 3 theater in Los Angeles.

Yep. But it's been a rough couple weeks in Los Angeles, as a lot of people know.

And we are going to do something for the people who lost their homes in the fire.

But it's a long road, y'all. Like, thank you to everyone who's given money. Thank you everybody who's reached out to check on us.

So lovely. We're talking years. Like we everybody who's reached out to check on us. So lovely.

We're talking years.

Like, we have...

It's going to change L.A. forever.

...ourselves on, like, what can be done.

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