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

I'm writer, filmmaker and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode we're talking about book therapy and interviewing writer and disability advocate Heather Radcliffe but first

What are you reading bria? I am reading a book you gave me which is

Oh my God you didn't give it to me you let me borrow it my favorite thing is is monsters. Oh my God it's so good. By Emile Ferris. It is really good. It's so good so far. I'm, I don't, did you tell the crazy story about about the books on the on a podcast I don't know if I told it on this podcast but I mean the basic rundown is like all the other five podcasts you do? I actually just had a moment where I was like, do I do anything?

This is your only podcast.

This is the one.

Where am I?

Hold on.

I need some coffee. Yeah, so basically, if you don't know about it. My favorite thing is monsters. It's a big graphic novel.

Huge graphic novel. I had no idea you know what I was going to buy it. I ordered it and I was like, oh cool, it came in and it's like 30 pounds.

Yeah. Huge book. it was printed overseas and when it came

back on its way back to America it sank or caught on fire or something crazy and the entire

shipment was lost and it was like back ordered

everywhere and this was at the same time and PR had covered it so everybody wanted it

right so it's just like this crazy like rush to try to get this book but now it's

back in stock although I'm looking at right

now the Los Angeles Public Library has 23 copies and there none are available so

it's it is a very popular book obviously anyway it's a fictional graphic novel about a girl who really

loves horror movies and monsters like B movie horror movie monsters and she

kind of pictures herself as one of them as she goes

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