

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.
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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

Nov 14, 2019 • 52min
Ep 126 - Yelp for Books with Sarah Enni!
Brea and Mallory talk about bookish social media with author and podcaster Sarah Enni! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Hingston and Olsen Promo Code - GLASSES Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter The Lady from the Black Lagoon Paperback Sarah Enni Sarah's Twitter First Draft Podcast Tell Me Everything by Sarah Enni Books Mentioned - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks The Will to Change by bell hooks The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin

Nov 7, 2019 • 44min
Ep 125 - Just Fucking Write - NaNoWriMo with Tom Merritt
Brea and Mallory talk about National Novel Writing Month and interview author and NaNoWriMo participant Tom Merritt! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsors - Lola mylola.com Promo Code - GLASSES30 Hingston and Olsen shortstoryadventcalendar.com Promo Code - GLASSES Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter NaNoWriMo Write Along Podcast Tom Merritt Tom's Twitter Tom's Books Ozark Book Con TBR Book of the Month Owl Crate Books Mentioned - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Watch Hollow by Gregory Funaro Wool by Hugh Howey Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge Clash of Eagles by Alan Smale

Oct 31, 2019 • 53min
Ep 124 - Be A Secret Witch with Ben Blacker!
Show Notes - Brea and Mallory talk about witch books with comic writer Ben Blacker! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Short Story Advent Calendar Promo Code - GLASSES Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Ben Blacker Hex Wives by Ben Blacker and Mirka Andolfo Writer's Panel Podcast Comic Book Commentary Thrilling Adventure Hour Books Mentioned - The Stand by Stephen King The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers by Larry McMurtry You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle by Alexandra West Growing Things by Paul Tremblay Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Wicked by Gregory Maguire The Witches Roald Dahl The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder The Witches of Echo Park by Amber Benson Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack Hex Life edited by Rachel Autumn Deering and Christopher Golden The Good House by Tananarive Due HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt The Graces by Laure Eve White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi CIRCE by Madeline Millar Which Witch by Eva Ibbotson

Oct 24, 2019 • 50min
Ep 123 - Scary Books for Halloween and Clay McLeod Chapman!
Brea and Mallory talk about scary books for Halloween and interview writer Clay McLeod Chapman! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Brea’s Movie at Austin Film Festival - Apartment 413 Clay McLeod Chapman Twitter The Remaking by Clay McLeod Chapman Books Mentioned - Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss It by Stephen King The Shining by Stephen King The Changeling by Victor LaValle The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle The Passage by Justin Cronin The Red Tree by Caitlin Kiernan Universal Harvester by John Darnielle The Good House by Tananarive Due The Last One by Alexandra Oliva The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons The Laws of the Skies by Gregoire Courtois, Rhonda Mullins (Translator) Wilder Girls by Rory Power Growing Things by Paul Tremblay Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucy McKnight Hardy

Oct 17, 2019 • 48min
Ep 122 - Space: The Ultimate Escape and Madeleine Roux
Brea and Mallory talk about space books and interview author Madeleine Roux! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Bark Box - barkbox.com/glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Brea’s Movie at Brooklyn Horror Fest http://brooklynhorrorfest.com/program/nightmare-fuel/edate/2019-10-19/ Madeleine Roux Madeleine's Twitter Salvaged by Madeleine Roux October Book Club Pick Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal Books Mentioned - Slime by Ruth Kassinger The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty ODY-C by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue Deconnick and Val De Landro Black Science by Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera Saga Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols Packing for Mars by Mary Roach Agents of Dreamland by Caitlin Kiernan

Oct 10, 2019 • 40min
Ep 121 - Punks, Goths and Russian Composers - Music Scene Books and Elizabeth Keenan!
zElizabeth Keenan! 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 Elizabeth Keenan Rebel Girls by Elizabeth Keenan Elizabeth's Twitter Books Mentioned - Zone One by Colson Whitehead When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Carter Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Girl by Blake Nelson The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes High Fidelity by Nick Hornby The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Just Kids by Patti Smith Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin and Nina Vakueva (Artist) White Tears by Hari Kunzru A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker Not That Bad edited by Roxane Gay Girls to the Front by Sara Marcus Let's Call It a Doomsday by Katie Henry Lords of Chaos by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind Louder Than Hell by Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman White Line Fever by Janiss Garza and Lemmy Kilmister What Are You Doing Here? by Laina Dawes

Oct 3, 2019 • 44min
Ep 120 - Mr. Dewey Is A Trash Baby and Library Systems with Adam Sockel
Brea and Mallory talk about library systems and interview Adam Sockel from the Professional Book Nerds Podcast! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Adam Sockel Professional Book Nerds Their Twitter Panorama Project Books Mentioned - The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante Affinity by Sarah Waters The Night Fire by Michael Connelly The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather

Sep 26, 2019 • 46min
Ep 119 - Extremely Beige - The Goodreads Rundown
Brea and Mallory give listeners a run down on Goodreads and give book journaling advice! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsors - The Great Courses Plus TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/glasses Arm and Hammer Cloud Control Kitty Litter Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Books to Prisoners Bookstoprisoners.net Books Mentioned - Naamah by Sarah Blake The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sep 19, 2019 • 42min
Ep 118 - Co-Written Books with Maika & Maritza Moulite!
Brea and Mallory talk to authors Maika and Maritza Moulite about co-written books. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsors - The Great Courses Plus TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/glasses Arm & Hammer Cloud Control Cat Litter Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Maika and Maritza Moulite Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite Maika's Twitter Maritza's Twitter Books Mentioned - The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller Insexts Volume 1 by Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina (Artist) Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake I'm Not Dying With You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple American Street by Ibi Zoboi