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 doing, it's an emergency episode.

I hate to say it.

The saddest Wii, Wii Wii you've ever heard.

We just really felt like we need to talk about what you can do to protect libraries because libraries are under attack right now.

Plus we talk about bookshop.org ebooks and recommend books about being in love with your best friend. you're reading. I just finished a very stressful book. I read Sunrise on the Reaping,

the new Suzanne Collins. Oh, very stressful. Very fuzzy. The busiest book right now, I would say.

It's the new Hunger Games, which is a prequel, it's called the 0.5, which is interesting.

Oh, it's like when the wind through the keyhole came out in the dark tower. It's like a

in-betweeny book i that yes because there was

the one actually didn't read the very early one which was like the 10th hunger game or the first hunger

games or something the ballad of songbirds yeah yeah yeah yeah and this is before this one stars stars

this one the main character is hamich hamich is the only person ever to win in District 12.

And we know that because of the Hunger Games books that come after this.

This is not a spoiler.

If it is, I don't know, maybe you should read those other books first because it's going to be a little bit confusing.

Although they do, she does explain what the Hunger Games are again, which I was like, oh, good. So it was the 50th anniversary of the Hunger Games, and they take twice as many tributes.

So instead of it being a boy and a girl from each different sector, it is, it's two boys, two girls.

So here's the thing about this book.

You know, Hamish survives.

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