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 our favorite and most hated book tropes.

Plus, we talk about the origin of the word paperback do you say paperback do you say something else and we recommend books for moms

but first brea what are you reading i am listening to an audio book called mood machine the

oh the spotify book yeah the spotify. Oh, the Spotify book.

Yeah, the Spotify book.

Mood Machine, The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly.

Liz Pelley reads the audio book as well.

It's an investigation into Spotify.

And sort of, I didn't really know a lot about the origins of Spotify.

So she gets into that,

the real origins of Spotify, not what they say the origins of Spotify are. It will change the way

you are listening to Spotify. And I would encourage anyone who's a Spotify user to check this book

out because I didn't know a lot of this. And the playlists that they're making,

okay, let me just tell you one small thing in this book. Wow, hot, hot dirt from this book.

This book is not flinching. Okay. And one thing that really blew my mind in the book is that

they make these playlists, right? And they'll be like, oh, it's some, whatever,

some sort of mood playlist for you.

And they used to be full of real artists.

And at some point, they're like, you know,

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