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

This episode, we're talking about self-published books,

and interviewing author Leslie Penelope.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

Well, we're hosting a talk with Paul Tremblay in July. I don't know what

month it is now. In July and I'm... Next month when this comes out. Yeah and I am

reading the cabin at the end of the world.

Is that what it's called?

Yeah.

Great.

It is so scary that I've only been reading it during the day.

So it's taking me a minute to get through because I read it and then once the night falls I am

Put that book down and go read something lighter because it's very dark. It's heavy as fuck. Yeah and I don't know what to say like without getting

uh, if you like Paul Tremblay, I think you like it. I loved a handful of ghosts.

I will, I don't know what to say without giving any way, but basically it's like there's a couple, a gay male

couple and they are on like a vacation with their adopted daughter and they're in this

cabin that has of course no cell reception, no Wi-Fi, and some people show up.

And it basically, there's trigger warnings for a lot of things.

Trigger warnings for like home invasion, trigger warnings for like being worried about your kid.

Homophobia.

There's just, I mean, like, it's, I'm not that, I'm about a quarter of the way through,

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