

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

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

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


