

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

Apr 22, 2021 • 52min
Ep 200 - 200th Episode AMA Celebration!
Brea and Mallory do an AMA to celebrate 200 episodes of the show! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsors - StoryworthAutumn’s FireLinks -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fm Books Mentioned - Severance by Ling MaThirsty Mermaids by Kat LeyhCarry On by Rainbow RowellPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeSave the Cat! By Blake SnyderChase Darkness With Me by Billy Jensen

Apr 15, 2021 • 51min
Ep 199 - Space Operas and Charlie Jane Anders!
Brea and Mallory discuss what makes a space book a space opera and talk to Charlie Jane Anders! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations Store Sponsor - BabbelPromo Code - GLASSESLibby! Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fmPhoebe Reads a MysteryCharlie Jane Anders Victories Greater Than Death Books Mentioned - Ten Lessons for a Post Pandemic World by Fareed ZakariaTo All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny HanEurovision by Catherynne M. ValenteHyperion by Dan SimmonsThe Stars are Legion by Kameron HurleyDune by Frank HerbertThe Collapsing Empire by John ScalziBinti by Nnedi OkoraforHome Sick Pilots by Dan Watters and Caspar WijngaardGirl Haven by Lilah Sturges and Meaghan CarterDetransition, Baby by Torrey PetersConsider Phlebas by Iain M. BanksThe Hainish Cycle by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Best of all Possible Worlds by Karen LordThe Light Brigade by Kameron HurleyThe Unbroken by C.L. Clark

Apr 8, 2021 • 43min
Ep 198 - Sh*ts, Giggles and Buying eBooks
Brea and Mallory talk about where to buy eBooks and how to escape from the stress of a huge TBR. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsor - StoryworthGreen ChefLinks -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fmMallory in Conversation with Clay McLeod ChapmanBooks Mentioned - Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane AndersWhisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod ChapmanTo All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

Apr 1, 2021 • 41min
Ep 197 - If You Wanna Be My Bookmark, You Gotta Get In My Book
Brea and Mallory discuss the ideal parameters of a bookmark and recommend a more diverse western. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsor - Libby!Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletterLibro.fmBookmark ParametersRigidityThicknessStaminaDurabilityAestheticLength+ Environmental FactorsBooks Mentioned - The Crown Ain’t Worth Much by Hanif AbdurraqibA Little Devil in America by Hanif AbdurraqibElatsoe by Darcie Little BadgerTo All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny HanUpright Women Wanted by Sarah GaileyRiver of Teeth by Sarah GaileyHow Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

Mar 25, 2021 • 41min
Ep 196 - Getting Rex From the Library and Annabelle Gurwitch!
Brea and Mallory tick off another box on the 2021 Reading Glasses Challenge - read a book recommended by your library! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsor - Libby!Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletter Libro.fmBig Library ReadAnnabelle GurwitchYou're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility by Annabelle GurwitchBarkthins Books Mentioned - The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart TurtonSnapdragon by Kat LeyhThe Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elisa HartHella by David GerroldKnocking on Heaven’s Door by Lisa Randall

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


