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 to power, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, we're discussing how specific writing styles can make or break a book and what

you can do about it. Plus, we solve a problem about reading in public and recommend novels

about banned books. Not banned books, but novels about banned books, which is different,

although we will recommend some band books if you want them. But first, Brea, what are you

reading? I am reading and listening to. I'm toggling back and forth.

My two-person book club book pick with my mom, which is Sister's Center, The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Amy Simple McPherson.

It is read, narrated by Carmen Chantelle, I think is how you say her name.

And this lady was wild. Yeah, I know. I know. She really Yeah, I know you're doing research on her too, but essentially she was a woman who was a preacher.

And in Los Angeles, she started as in the Pentecostal world, but then moved into kind of making

her own brand of religion called four square i believe is

what it was called still is actually i live in echo park she has a temple still here that has like her name on it

the angelus temple yeah she became so successful in traveling around speaking that she was able to

like build this temple which is sort of unheard of for a woman preacher. And then there starts to be scandal.

At one point, she just disappears from the beach one day.

And they can't find her.

And a month later, they find her wandering through the desert in Mexico.

And she says she was kidnapped.

And that's where I am right now.

And I mean, she just is like, it's wild.

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