

Reading Glasses
Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara
Want to learn how to make the most of your reading life? Join Brea Grant and Mallory O’Meara every week as they discuss tips and tricks for reading better! Listeners will learn how to vanquish their To-Be-Read piles, get pointers on organizing their bookshelves and hear reviews on the newest reading gadgets. Brea and Mallory also offer advice on bookish problems. How do you climb out of a reading slump? How do you support authors while still getting books on the cheap? Where do you hide the bodies of the people who won’t stop talking while you’re trying to read? Mallory and Brea engage in a weekly discussion geared towards all kinds of book lovers -- no matter what you read or how you read it.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Mar 18, 2021 • 41min
Ep 195 - Alert! We Got An Unreliable Narrator Situation!
Brea and Mallory talk about unreliable narrators. Or do they? Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsor - Care/OfPromo Code - GLASSES50BabbelPromo code - GLASSES Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fmBooks by the FootPage Anchor Books Mentioned - The Memory Theater by Karin TidbeckThe Cutting Season by Attica LockeFever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowellThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Red Tree by Caitlin KiernanDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia-Lloyd Jones

Mar 11, 2021 • 50min
Ep 194 - Reading Is… Reading and Annalee Newitz!
Brea and Mallory discuss what counts as reading. And interview Annalee Newitz to weigh in! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations Store Sponsors - Skout’s HonorPromo Code - GLASSESComa InducerPromo Code - GLASSES Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fm Annalee NewitzFour Lost CitiesOur Opinions Are CorrectBooks Mentioned - Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. AndersonThis Was Our Pact by Ryan AndrewsDark Emu by Bruce PascoeStormsong by C.L. Polk

Mar 4, 2021 • 41min
Ep 193 - Why We Love Being Stressed Out By Thrillers
Brea and Mallory talk about why they like stressing themselves out by reading thrillers, recommend books for long distance besties and give advice on tracking omnibus reading. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsor - Coma Inducer ComforterPromo Code - GLASSES Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fmLucky Streaming on Shudder Now!Promo Code - LUCKY Books Mentioned - The Unlikely Thru-Hiker by Derick LugoNo One Is Talking About This by Patricia LockwoodThe Red Tree by Caitlin KiernanThe Echo Wife by Sarah GaileyThe Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth WareThe Cutting Season by Attica LockeThe Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani, translated by Sam TaylorRed Hands by Christopher GoldenBig Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann FriedmanText Me When You Get Home by Kayleen SchaeferMy Glory Was I Had Such Friends by Amy SilversteinThe Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

Feb 25, 2021 • 40min
Ep 192 - Poetry Cleared My Skin and Now I Can Do More Sit Ups
Brea and Mallory tick off another box on the 2021 Reading Glasses Challenge - read a poetry collection. They also give out some video game readalikes and recommend some games to play with your book club. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsors - Kitty Poo ClubPromo Code - GLASSESComa InducerPromo Code - GLASSES Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fmChoco RawWord Game Books Mentioned - The Luminous Dead by Caitlin StarlingCarry by Toni JensenThere Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan ParkerThe Crown Ain’t Worth Much by Hanif AbdurraqibThe Black Unicorn by Audre LordeHome Is Not A Country by Sara ElhilloThe Hill We Climb by Amanda GormanThe Best American Poetry 2020Bannerless by Carrie VaughnSea of Rust by C. Robert CargillGods Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson

Feb 18, 2021 • 40min
Ep 191 - I’ll Just Read the Book! Review a Book by a BIPOC Author
Brea and Mallory tick off a box on the Reading Glasses 2021 challenge - review a book by a BIPOC author! Also books with anxious leading characters and does fanfic count towards reading goals? Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations Store Sponsor - Bright CellarsPromo Code - GLASSESGreen ChefPromo Code - 90GLASSES Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fmCrocheted BookmarksReprinting Authorshttps://www.peepaltreepress.com/https://www.peekashpress.com/ Books Mentioned - The Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonCheck, Please! by Ngozi UkazuMediocre by Ijeoma OluoWhy We Can’t Sleep by Ada CalhounThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionWow, No Thank You by Samantha IrbyThe Nest by Kennth OppelWhere’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

Feb 11, 2021 • 43min
Ep 190 - Bookshelf Creeping
Brea and Mallory discuss why we’re all obsessed with peeping on other peoples’ bookshelves. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsor - Skout’s HonorBabbelPromo Code - GLASSES Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fmDemi Moore’s BathroomFeather Bookmarks Books Mentioned - When Women We Were Birds by Terry Tempest WilliamsThe Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona DavisThe Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins

Feb 4, 2021 • 50min
Ep 189 - What Takes Us Out of Books and Author Sylvain Neuvel
Brea and Mallory discuss what to do when something takes you out of a book and interview author Sylvain Neuvel. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsor - Kitty Poo ClubPromo Code - GLASSES Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletterLibro.fmStory Terrace12 Hour ShiftUK Edition of The Lady from the Black LagoonA History of What Comes Next by Sylvain NeuvelPlaylist for A History of What Comes NextTub TrayTablet Arm Books Mentioned - The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet GramesThe Secret Women by Sheila WilliamsBoth Flesh and Not by David Foster WallacePlain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforthThe Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J. SawyerThe Future is Yours by Dan FreyHard Reboot by Django WexlerVersion Zero by David Yoon

Jan 28, 2021 • 54min
Ep 188 - What Do People Do in the Apocalypse? Hopeful Books and Mike Chen
Brea and Mallory talk about hopeful books and interview author Mike Chen! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsor - Bright CellarsPromo Code - glasses Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fmAfterShokzMike ChenWe Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen Books Mentioned - Carry On by Rainbow RowellA Demon Haunted Land by Monica BlackAll the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane AndersNot Your Average Guy by Gwenda BondDig by A.S. KingThe Book of M by Peng ShepardMigrations by Charlotte McConaghyThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigQueenie by Candace Carty-WilliamsHench by Natalie Zina WalschotsNo Fuzzball! by Isabella KungA Spindle Splintered by Alix E. HarrowRomeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North

Jan 21, 2021 • 40min
Ep 187 - Magical Bread and Florida - Reader Wheelhouses 2021
Brea and Mallory update their reader wheelhouses for the 2021 Reading Glasses Challenge. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsor - BabbelPromo Code - GLASSESLinks -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fmThe Lady from the Black Lagoon UK Pre-OrderBooks Mentioned - Remote Control by Nnedi OkoraforThe Echo Wife by Sarah GaileyMooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy XuOn a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Jan 14, 2021 • 38min
Ep 186 - Hot from the Bible!
Mallory and Brea talk about Mallory reading the bible. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsor - Kitty Poo ClubPromo Code - GLASSES Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fm Books Mentioned - Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated by Olena BormashenkoThe Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman