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 Bria Grant filmmaker and e-reader. This episode we're

talking about warning signs that maybe you're picking up the wrong book. It's

calling and you've answered.

Plus we're giving tips on how to make your book float.

That's not like a fun drink. That's an actual float.

And recommending romance with no sex. No sex. But first, what are you reading, Briam?

I am listening to a book for my book club. It is, I wish I've never read before, surprisingly, it's in cold blood by

Truman Capote narrated by Scott Brick. Have you read in cold blood?

No, I was gonna say it's like a classic book I've never read.

Yeah, it's all set in Kansas, if you you don't know I do feel like it's like

very famous also like because I've seen kapote I guess maybe I know more about it I

don't know but it's about the members of this family were all killed by a shotgun inches away from their faces and there

were no clues to this crime about why it happened.

And it's considered one of the first non-fiction novels, so non-fiction novel, you know,

ever written so it's like it is written in prose like fiction which I guess I

knew but it wasn't until I started listening to it where I was like wait this is

non-fiction right but it's written like fiction oh interesting and he kind of

reconstruct the murder and the investigation and everything and it's you know

him getting into what happened but it's great it's a great

listen so far the language is really well done it's very flowery very like

beautiful to listen to and I've been listening to it on my drives to set every day and it's kind of nice little escape.

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