

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

Sep 12, 2019 • 48min
Ep 117 - Reading Series Is Like Dating and JY Yang!
Brea and Mallory talk about book series and interview writer JY Yang. 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 Buddy JY Yang https://twitter.com/halleluyang https://www.patreon.com/jyyang The Ascent to Godhood by JY Yang Books Mentioned - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett The Guin Saga Manga by Kazuaki Yanagisawa Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older In The Woods by Tana French Homeland by R.A. Salvatore Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear by Walter Moers Storm Front (Dresden Files #1) by Jim Butcher The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Sep 5, 2019 • 46min
Ep 116 - Books on the Immigrant Experience and Tope Folarin!
Mallory and Brea talk about great books on the immigrant experience and interview author Tope Folarin! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Lola mylola.com Promo Code - Glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Donation Links https://www.raicestexas.org/ https://www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/project-corazon https://secure.actblue.com/ Tope Folarin https://twitter.com/topefolarin A Particular Kind of Black Man by Tope Folarin Books Mentioned - The Hunger by Alma Katsu Naturally Tan by Tan France Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman (Translator) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Behold the Dreams by Imbolo Mbue Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung, translated by Clara Winston and Richard Winston First Cosmic Velocity by Zach Powers Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Aug 29, 2019 • 53min
Ep 115 - Books That Make You Feel Old and Other Historical Fiction with E.R. Ramzipoor!
Brea and Mallory talk about historical fiction with E.R. Ramzipoor! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Promo Code - http://TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Live Show Stream Link E.R. Ramzipoor https://twitter.com/er_ramzipoor The Ventriloquists by E.R. Ramzipoor Books Mentioned - City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, illustrated by Jon Klassen Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Circe by Madeline Miller The Wonder by Emma Donoghue Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

Aug 22, 2019 • 45min
Ep 114 - A Lovely Bread Dream and Other Happy Books and Gabrielle Civil!
Brea and Mallory talk about books that make you happy and interview black feminist performance artist and poet Gabrielle Civil. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Plus Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Libro.fm https://libro.fm/ Mallory’s Event Page Brea’s Movies Something Else at Fantastic Fest The Vicious at Horrible Imaginings Gabrielle Civil Experiments in Joy by Gabrielle Civil Books Mentioned - Growing Things by Paul Tremblay Women & Power by Mary Beard The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple Sourdough by Robin Sloan The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay R E D by Chase Berggrun Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Chronology by Zahra Patterson People Who Led to My Plays by Adrienne Kennedy

Aug 15, 2019 • 33min
Ep 113 - Who’s Making These Books?
Brea and Mallory break down publishing and solve some review guilt problems! 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 - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Wilder Girls by Rory Power Tacky Goblin by T. Sean Steele The Lady from the Black Lagoon (Large Print) by Mallory O'Meara Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat

Aug 8, 2019 • 49min
Ep 112 -How to Boil Water and Other Cookbooks and Sam Slaughter!
Brea and Mallory talk about cookbooks and interview writer Sam Slaughter! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Lola mylola.com Use code GLASSES when you subscribe! Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Recipe Tracker App - Paprika Sam Slaughter Sam's Twitter Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum? by Sam Slaughter Books Mentioned - Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Movers and Shakers by Hope Ewing The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook edited by Louise Hagler and Dorothy R. Bates Chloe's Kitchen by Chloe Coscarelli Isa Does It by Isa Chandra Moskowitz Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails by David Kaplan, Nick Fauchald, and Alex Day Smuggler's Cove by Martin Cate and Rebecca Cate Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander The Need by Helen Phillips Gather at the River edited by David Joy and Eric Rickstad By the Smoke and the Smell by Thad Vogler Deep Down Dark by Héctor Tobar The Bar Book by Jeffrey Morgenthaler Liquid Intelligence by Dave Arnold Drinking Like Ladies by Misty Kalkofen and Kirsten Amann The Dead Rabbit Mixology & Mayhem by Sean Muldoon, Jack McGarry, and Jillian Vose

Aug 1, 2019 • 28min
Ep 111 - Dusty, Sweaty Westerns and Del Howison!
Brea and Mallory talk about westerns and interview author Del Howison! 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 Del Howison The Survival of Margaret Thomas by Del Howison Buy at Dark Delicacies Books Mentioned - Recursion by Blake Crouch Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson River of Porcupines by G. K. Aalborg The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry True Grit by Charles Portis Lone Star Planet by Henry Beam Piper River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen Tempest by Beverly Jenkins The Gunslinger by Stephen King The Hunger by Alma Katsu American Vampire by Scott Snyder, Stephen King, Rafael Albuquereque Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman Aloha Rodeo by David Wolman and Julian Smith Depth of Winter by Craig Johnson Canary by Duane Swierczynski Back of Beyond by C.J. Box Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner

Jul 25, 2019 • 31min
Ep 110 - The Benefits of the Snargle-Flargen - Your Brain on Books
Brea and Mallory talk about what books do to your brain! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Plus Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Books Mentioned - They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib The Ice House by Minette Walters 1984 by George Orwell Passing by Nella Larsen Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Jul 18, 2019 • 43min
Ep 109 - When a Book is On a Bagel You Can Buy It Anytime and Matilda Sabal from the Bluestockings NYC Bookstore!
Brea and Mallory talk about their rules for buying books and interview Matilda Sabal from the Bluestockings NYC Bookstore! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Plus TheGreatCoursesPlus.Com/Glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Veteran Reading Service Bluestockings NYC https://twitter.com/bluestockings https://www.instagram.com/bluestockingsnyc/ Matilda's Instagram Books Mentioned - Afterlife with Archie by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla The Killer Across the Table by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Autonomous by Annalee Newitz A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson

Jul 11, 2019 • 37min
Ep 108 - Prison Libraries and How to Help Them and Jill Grunenwald
Brea and Mallory talk about prison libraries and talk to author and podcaster Jill Grunenwald! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Promo Code - TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/Glasses Sponsor - Lola MyLola.com Promo Code - Glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Prison Book Programs Jill Grunenwald https://twitter.com/Jill_Grun Professional Book Nerds Reading Behind Bars Books Mentioned - Exhalation by Ted Chiang The Girl Who Slept with God by Val Brelinski Tacky Goblin by T. Sean Steele An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten, (Translated by) Marlaine Delargy Someone We Know by Shari Lapena