

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

Jan 23, 2020 • 44min
Ep 136 - This Motherf**ker Was Picked By Oprah!
Brea and Mallory discuss celebrity book club picks and test out a reading challenge app! 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 Jill Hamilton’s Book Blog Beanstack Mallory’s Book Pre Order The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara Brea’s Movie Pre Order Mallory's Los Angeles Book Launch Book Censorship in Missouri Books Mentioned - How to Invent Everything by Ryan North Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Widdershins by Jordan L. Hawk

Jan 16, 2020 • 43min
Ep 135 - Re-Reading Books and Mike Chen!
Brea and Mallory talk about re-reading 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 Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Mike Chen Mike's Twitter A Beginning At The End by Mike Chen Books Mentioned - Arm of the Sphinx by Josiah Bancroft The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones The Girl Who Slept with God by Val Brelinski The Sandman vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman The Umbrella Academy vol. 1 by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba Paper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang (Artist), Matthew Wilson (Artist) Stardust by Neil Gaiman I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Get In Trouble by Kelly Link The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Rule by Rowenna Miller A Royal Pain by Ellen Conford The Séance by Joan Lowery Nixon The Haunting at Cliff House by Karleen Bradford An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Jade City by Fonda Lee The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Jan 9, 2020 • 40min
Ep 134 - Like Living Inside of Goodreads and Donna Freitas!
Brea and Mallory talk about ways to organize and display your books, and interview author Donna Freitas! 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 BookRiot Reading Log Donna Freitas - Consent: A Memoir Books Mentioned - A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen Wake, Siren by Nina MacLaughlin My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Jan 2, 2020 • 45min
Ep 133 - Learning Things From Books and Courtenay Hameister!
Brea and Mallory discuss learning things from books and talk to author and humorist Courtenay Hameister! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Helenna Santos’ Movie - Shasta Triangle Courtenay Hameister Okay Fine Whatever Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Books Mentioned - Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder The Actor and the Target By Declan Donnellan The Power of the Actor by Ivana Chubbuck Death and Co. Cocktails The Bar Book by Jeffrey Morgenthaler and Martha Holmberg The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding by Arnold Schwarzenegger The Craving Mind by Judson Brewer Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

Dec 26, 2019 • 47min
Ep 132 - Our Best Books of the Year!
Brea and Mallory talk about their favorite books of 2019! 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 - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett Dig by A.S. King Recursion by Blake Crouch Amatka by Karin Tidbeck The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Salvaged by Madeleine Roux The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Bunny by Mona Awad The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden Middlegame by Seanan McGuire Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle Normal People by Sally Rooney The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, Jon Klassen (Illustrator) City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Dec 19, 2019 • 50min
Ep 131 - Not Enough Tub Reading - 2019 Reader Challenge and Tres Dean!
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 Tres Dean For Your Consideration by Tres Dean Books Mentioned - The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado This Is Water by David Foster Wallace Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translated by) Flowers of Mold & Other Stories by Seong-Nan Ha, Janet Hong (Translator) Animus by Antoine Revoy Destroyer by Victor LaValle, Dietrich Smith (Illustrator) The Snakebite Survivors' Club by Jeremy Seal Skeleton Keys by Brian Switek Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell Exhalation by Ted Chiang The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West The Return by Rachel Harrison Slam Dunk, Vol. 1 by Takehiko Inoue They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano, Arturo Torres (Illustrator) Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

Dec 12, 2019 • 54min
Ep 130 - Murder Books with Wendy Heard
Brea and Mallory talk about murder books with author Wendy Heard! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Serial Box serialbox.com/podcast - For 20% off! Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Wendy Heard Wendy's Twitter The Kill Club by Wendy Heard Books Mentioned - The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban Lady Killers by Tori Telfer Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen Chew Volume 1 by John Layman, Rob Guillory (Artist) The Secret History by Donna Tartt Dare Me by Megan Abbott

Dec 5, 2019 • 45min
Ep 129 - What Gets You To Pick Up A Book and Lindsey Dunn!
Brea and Mallory talk about what gets them to pick up a book and interview Lindsey Dunn from NoveList! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Storyworth storyworth.com/glasses Promo Code- GLASSES Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Eastsiders on Netflix NoveList Blog Lindsey Dunn Books Mentioned - The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Know My Name by Chanel Miller Normal People by Sally Rooney The Crescent Stone by Matt Mikalatos The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman

Nov 28, 2019 • 46min
Ep 128 - Power Moves and Trigger Warnings with Isa Mazzei!
Brea and Mallory talk about triggers warnings in books with writer Isa Mazzei! 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 Penguin Rewards Mallory’s LA Launch Party with Sarah Gailey Atthis Arts Isa Mazzei Camgirl by Isa Mazzei Books Mentioned - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo The Stranger by Albert Camus Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Nov 21, 2019 • 55min
Ep 127 - Everyone’s Just Doing Their Best and Zoraida Cordova and Dhonielle Clayton!
Mallory and Brea discuss the author/reader relationship and interview authors and the hosts of Deadline City Zoraida Cordova and Dhonielle Clayton! 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 Deadline City Zoraida Cordova Zoraida's Twitter Dhonielle Clayton's Twitter Books Mentioned - On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Soulless by Gail Carriger Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey