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 reading appeal factors. They're similar to

doorways, but they're kind of different. And we'll talk about how, but

it can't, these can be helpful for you. We're going to talk about them. It could be a way for you to help

find books that you like. And we're giving advice on what to do when another author finishes a

series like not the main author someone else does and we're recommending horror

books with kissing. Really the hot one of our hottest requests lately but first Bria what are you reading?

I just finished the new Mona award Rouge I was literally asking you about this a couple of

I know I know.

I know you're like, have you ready yet?

Okay, I would like to start a category of books

that's called completely unhinged, but that's okay.

Like, or maybe that's okay.

Or maybe it's called completely unhinged, but I'm super into it. This is in true Mona Award form, completely unhinged. It's about a young woman whose mother just passed

away and her mother gives her, she has to go home and take care of all of her stuff

back in Southern California. She lives in Canada, but she's really

obsessed, the young woman named Bell, Bell's really obsessed with

skin care routines and skin care videos and like she talks about it in the book she's like oh my my diamond

plus eye cream for I'm not even saying it right because there's like a million

descriptors I forgot to put it on before my son's you know whatever the whatever, the whole thing is like all about.

Yeah, I'm a little like this. So I really related to it. I don't really watch videos,

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