

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 2, 2020 • 34min
Ep 146 - Teddy Ruxpin Was The Original Audiobook
Brea and Mallory talk about how to get into audiobooks! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Shower Speaker Books Mentioned - The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby

Mar 26, 2020 • 43min
Ep 145 - Share Your Fruit in the Apocalypse
Brea and Mallory recommend apocalypse books! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Isolation Book Club - https://youtu.be/BoMwWeiomwQ Books Mentioned - As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste Four Archetypes by C. G. Jung Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Severance by Ling Ma Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden The Road by Cormac McCarthy Wanderers by Chuck Wendig How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Stand by Stephen King American War by Omar El Akkad 1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

Mar 19, 2020 • 52min
Ep 144 - Hunker with A Honker: Reading in Isolation
Brea and Mallory suggest some reads for socially isolating! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter #IsolationBookClub Masque of Red Death for free! Audio Version! Books Mentioned - Remembrance by Rita Woods Limetown by Cote Smith, Zack Akers, and Skip Bronkie The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Lucky Us by Amy Bloom Lock In by John Scalzi

Mar 12, 2020 • 34min
Ep 143 - Just Being Weird - Specific Book Recommendations
We talk specific book recommendations and how to use Beanstack with our Reading Challenge 2020! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Books Mentioned - House of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse Shirley by Susan Scarf Merrell

Mar 5, 2020 • 34min
Ep 142 - Dump That Book!
Brea and Mallory tick off another box on the Reading Glasses 2020 challenge - stop reading a book you don’t like! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Mallory’s Paperback - The Lady From The Black Lagoon Brea’s SXSW Movie Books Mentioned - Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin Looking For Miss America by Margot Mifflin The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James Made for Love by Alissa Nutting

Feb 27, 2020 • 35min
Ep 141 - Ask Your Horse Friends About New Releases
Brea and Mallory talk about how to anticipate new releases! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Book Candle Books Mentioned - Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen Tongson

Feb 20, 2020 • 50min
Ep 140 - We Heard You Like Book Podcasts and Overdue!
Brea and Mallory talk about their favorite book podcasts! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Brea’s Movie - After Midnight Brea at SXSW - Lucky Mallory’s Book The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara Book Podcasts - Professional Book Nerds Book Riot Literary Disco Deadline City New York Times Sword and Laser Read Me Romance First Draft Pod Overdue Andrew's Twitter Craig's Twitter Overdue's Twitter Overdue’s Podcast Recommendations The Librarian is In Unspoiled Worst Best Sellers SSR Podcast Books Mentioned - Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley The Woman Destroyed by Simone De Beauvoir The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Allen Mandelbaum (Translated by) Sonic the Hedgehog by Kiel Phegley Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Paradise by Toni Morrison Great by Sara Benincasa My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

Feb 13, 2020 • 47min
Ep 139 - What To Do When an Author Says Something Shitty
Show Notes - Brea and Mallory talk about what to do when an author you love says something you hate. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Brea’s Romantic Monster Movie See the movie when Brea in Los Angeles! Books Mentioned - You Can't Kill Me Twice by Charlyne Yi Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean Hicks Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg Yes Please by Amy Poehler How to Be Alone by Lane Moore

Feb 6, 2020 • 36min
Ep 138 - Reading Books Set In Another Country
Brea and Mallory talk about reading books set in another country and give advice about library holds frustration! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter The Fanciest Book Mallory’s LA Book Launch Party Books Mentioned - Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook He Died with a Felafel in His Hand by John Birmingham What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell Little Gods by Meng Jin The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

Jan 30, 2020 • 36min
Ep 137 - Being Part of the Book Community and Riley Black!
Brea and Mallory talk about being a part of the book community and interview author Riley Black! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Riley Black Riley's Twitter Riley's Patreon Skeleton Keys Books Mentioned - The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride Bitten by Kelley Armstrong The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner