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 Maria Grant, filmmaker and editor.

This episode, we're talking about monster books.

Wow, this is exciting.

We love monsters.

And we're interviewing the author, Cadwell Turnbull.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I started, I'm listening to a book that came out this year called The Conductors.

The first book in a series by Nicole Glover, and it's narrated by Bonnie Turpin.

And I hope I'm saying that right.

But I know there's listeners to the show who are fans of her audiobook narration.

So I thought I'd throw that in there because she's narrated other books I've listened to

and she's very good.

The Conductors is great.

It is, it combines, okay, you ready?

History, cool, female, black protagonist, mystery, basically.

It's awesome.

It's very fun.

It is, I'm fantasy.

In fantasy, it's a fantasy.

It's a magic thing.

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