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 answering questions about signed books.

How precious do you have to be with them? How do you

verify that it's really signed by the author and are they worth seeking out? Plus, an extra long

review about book bows. We were sent quite a few and we appreciate that. And how much protection

do books really need? Yeah, this is this whole episode is really kind of philosophical.

Like, how do you treat books as an object?

Yeah.

But first, Brea, what are you reading?

I just finished a book called Esperance by Adam Oyabongi.

This book is written for me.

It is wonderful.

It is told from two perspectives.

One is a detective looking into a very strange case. Basically, these, he goes into this apartment. I think, yeah, an apartment. And there's people dead. And the apartment is just a regular apartment, but they drowned. Whoa. And there's wet horror. There's no, it's wet horror, which is a term we're using on the show now. And there's also scratches on the ceiling. Ooh. And it's super weird. He doesn't know what's going on. And then it also shows the point of view of this young woman who starts in Bristol makes a stop in Edinburgh.

You know, we love an Edinburgh's book on this show.

Oh, I want to read this.

And she kind of pairs up with this British woman, and she's on a mission to find this

very specific ship from history and information about a ship.

Yeah.

So there's not, that sounds like two things

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