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 Brea Grant filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about how to write a good book review.

Sometimes it's easier to write a bad one. We're telling you

how to write a good one. Plus, we review a projector for e-books. That's right. And we're in the future

and recommend books where the protagonist is part of a weird, unheard of random subculture. But first,

Brea, what are you reading? I am reading a book we just literally talked about

that I said, I really want to read this book. And now I'm reading it. Here's the thing. You do an

episode. You're like, these are the books I want to read and sometimes read them. This is the

hot follow-up. People are excited about it. I'm reading Death of the Author by Nettie Corford, which I pre-ordered. So I was very excited to get this.

It just came out.

It is, wow, it's sort of epistolary.

I'm only maybe like 15% of the way through it, but it's sort of epistolary.

It's about this author who has been fired from her work.

Her latest novels rejected.

She has to move back in with her family.

Everything is not going well. And then she's like, I'm going to start writing. I'm just like really into writing about robots.

And I have like this robot idea. And then the other chapters where it's not about her are all about,

all from the point of view of her family members and people who know her and they're like, oh,

I remember when she started doing this or she's always been like this or they tell a story about their lives or something.

So it's a little bit of pistol area.

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