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David I was looking at some old best books of the year lists. Oh over the weekend. Great. As one does. Mm-hmm

I was looking for podcast material. Let's be honest. But I'm scouring New York Times notable nonfiction of year fill in the blank

Yeah, and I noticed something very interesting every year there are a few truly great books that the times and other papers would describe as

Brilliant or

authoritative and then there's a much larger

Substratta of books that make these year-end lists that are good

Rather than great, okay, and the times uses certain adjectives to describe them

Would you like to hear some of the words that are used to describe the merely good rather than great book? Oh, yes

Please these are actual examples from the New York Times kids number one solid

Yeah

Solid you've written a book if the review had set a solid history of professional wrestling

How would you have felt about that? I mean you would take that depending on the source

Yeah, I did write a book but I'm I know I'm already relating to these more as a former like editorial assistant and book publishing whose job

You know, we was a cobbled together the cover quotes based on the long reviews

You wouldn't you wouldn't you couldn't really like out now lie right?

I mean you're not gonna like just take words from out you know out of sequence from different sentences and put together

Oh, you know false praise, but

You do have to be a little bit artful with it and I'm just it's yeah

You're making the decision of whether or not to put solid dot dot dot

Oh, winning history, you know whether whether you put the solid in there is it can be a very like you know a heart-rending moment

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