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

I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Brida Grant, filmmaker

and e-reader.

This week we're talking to Eat Some Mutsy about tough subjects and trigger warnings.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I just finished a book that was great. It's called Pet by Aqueckay and Maizi. Have you heard of this book?

No. It's great. It's, um, so it is, I would say it's a middle grade sort of slash y a but I think middle grade I mean people may people

Speaking of sub subjects and trigger works people may want to check it's about a town in which there used to be

monsters but they've all disappeared all of the monsters have have gone away and

um... Is this a spooky book? Yeah, it's spooky.

Yeah, it has spooky adjacent.

Spooky adjacent. Um, and there's a care, the main character's name is Jam.

And yeah, super cute.

And she grew up learning that in her town all the monsters have gone away,

but then one night she happens upon a monster basically through a piece of art that her mother made and the monster is there to sort of

solve a problem that's happening near near in a place near and dear to jam.

And that's basically what it's about.

Lots of trigger warnings there.

I would check that before you read this book, for sure.

But it is a fantastic book.

It deals with sort of like what it feels. It's like the

monster is real but the monster is also metaphorical if that makes sense and it

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