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 self-imposed book rules.

What are those self-imposed book rules,

rules for buying and reading that you put on yourself? No one made them but you. Plus, we're

testing out a romance rating website and solve a problem about tracking a book with two authors.

But first, Brea, what are you reading? I just started a book called Butter by Asako Yuzuki.

The Transloders, Polly Barton.

It came out last year.

I have not heard of this.

It has a really cool cover.

Is he the cover?

Yeah, but I've never heard of this.

Okay, I would say.

She just loves the finer things in life.

And she's a serial killer.

And this journalist who wants to crack her case.

So she's already in a detention center when we meet her, the serial killer.

And it said that she kind of has seduced them through her cooking, but there's like, they can't

quite pin it on her.

And there's this journalist who starts visiting her in this detention center.

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