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, or Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Brea Grant,, after filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we are giving out tips on getting more reading in and interviewing author and

podcaster John Hodgman.

But first...

What are you reading, Bria?

I just finished The Fact of a body by Alexandria

Marzano Lesnabich. Did it ruin you? Yes, it was okay. Yes, so the book is a

memoir about this woman getting into law, but also this is major trigger

warnings for people.

She also was molested as a child.

And then she tells the parallel story

of this child moster whose case she ends up working on

and his story growing up and the story of his case as it goes on and it's it's an amazing book. I mean I feel like people were talking about it before it even came out like it was like that much of a amazing book and it's great I

mean it's a memoir so it's this very harrowing I mean like I don't know what it's it's

very hard to read I know you said when when you read it you read it over three months

because it was too hard to get through. Yeah I could only do like a chapter and I mean you

know how fast I normally read it took me months to finish because it was just it's so

it's so it's so it's an incredible book but it's so intense it's brutal and and anyone who has

triggers around this kind of thing it is it is very detailed or about the case that

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