

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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Jul 4, 2019 • 50min
Ep 107 - Test Out God and Other Nonfiction with Ross Blocher and Carrie Poppy
Brea and Mallory tick off another box on the Reading Glasses 2019 Reader Challenge with Carrie Poppy and Ross Blocher from Oh No Ross and Carrie! - read a nonfiction book you don’t know anything about! 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 Oh No Ross and Carrie! https://www.facebook.com/ONRAC/ https://twitter.com/ohnopodcast Books Mentioned - Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols Experimental Film by Gemma Files The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson Real Queer America by Samantha Allen The Snakebite Survivors' Club by Jeremy Seal The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean Caesar's Last Breath by Sam Kean Spook by Mary Roach Suspicious Minds by Rob Brotherton The Book by Keith Houston

Jun 27, 2019 • 28min
Ep 106 - Pride Reading Recommendations 2019
Brea and Mallory recommend books for Pride month! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Arm and Hammer Cloud Control Kitty Litter Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Books Mentioned - The Farm by Joanne Ramos Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett Out by Natsuo Kirino Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia I Can't Date Jesus by Michael Arceneaux Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country by Chavisa Woods An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Sweet and Low by Nick White Zami by Audre Lorde Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

Jun 20, 2019 • 48min
Ep 105 - Authors are Like Spiders with Sarah Kuhn!
Brea and Mallory tick off another box on the 2019 Reading Glasses Reader Challenge - tell an author you love their work - with author Sarah Kuhn! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Arm and Hammer Cloud Control Kitty Litter! Sponsor - The Great Courses - The Art of Reading TheGreatCourses.com/Glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Sarah Kuhn https://twitter.com/sarahkuhn I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn Books Mentioned - The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh Dig by A.S. King A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

Jun 13, 2019 • 42min
Ep 104 - Empty Planets, Trains and Swamps and Deb Spera!
Brea and Mallory talk about a book’s sense of place and interview author Deb Spera! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses The Art of Reading TheGreatCourses.com/glasses Sponsor - Arm and Hammer Cloud Control Cat Litter Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Deb Spera https://twitter.com/DebSpera Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera Books Mentioned - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey The Book of Flying by Keith Miller The Power by Naomi Alderman Bloodchild by Octavia Butler The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley The Gloaming by Melanie Finn Melmoth by Sarah Perry Infomocracy by Malka Older Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender Amatka (Paperback) By Karin Tidbeck A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward There There by Tommy Orange An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Country Dark by Chris Offutt Southernmost by Silas House My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante and translated by Ann Goldstein The Bucolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

Jun 6, 2019 • 49min
Ep 103 - Cups and Balls and Magic with Sarah Gailey
Brea and Mallory talk about magic systems with author Sarah Gailey! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Storyworth storyworth.com/readingglasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Sarah Gailey Sarah's Twitter Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey See Sarah and Mallory at Skylight Books in LA on 6/13! Books Mentioned - The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor The Magicians by Lev Grossman Sabriel by Garth Nix Get in Trouble by Kelly Link Exit West by Mohsin Hamid In The Woods by Tana French Doom Patrol Vol. 1 by Gerard Way and Nick Derington

May 30, 2019 • 37min
Ep 102 - How To Talk About Books and Stoya!
Brea and Mallory discuss the best way to talk about books and interview author Stoya. 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 Stoya Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn by Stoya https://twitter.com/stoya https://www.instagram.com/stoya/ Sorting Hat Chats Women of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text What’s the Name of That Book? Name That Book LibraryThing The Fiction_L listserv Reddit’s whatsthatbook thread "Stump the Bookseller" blog Big Book Search Books Mentioned - The Rending and the Nest by Kaethe Schwehn Maid by Stephanie Land Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix The Vagina Bible by Jennifer Gunter You Daughters of Freedom by Claire Wright

May 23, 2019 • 38min
Ep 101 - Animal, Vegetable or Jesus? And Other Nature Books and Meredith May!
Brea and Mallory talk about nature books and interview author Meredith May! 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 - TheGreatCourses.com/Glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Meredith May twitter.com/MeredithMaySF The Honey Bus by Meredith May Books Mentioned - The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein The Editor by Steven Rowley Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien

May 16, 2019 • 39min
Ep 100 - Reader Challenge Check In - Our 100th Episode!
Brea and Mallory celebrate 100 episodes of Reading Glasses with a reading challenge check in! 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 - TheGreatCourses.com/GLASSES Sponsor - BookCon Promo Code - BookCon2019.com/ReadingGlasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Books Mentioned - Middlegame by Seanan McGuire Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) Flowers of Mold & Other Stories by Seong-Nan Ha, Janet Hong (Translator) Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell Prism Stalker Volume 1 by Sloane Leong When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll Working Stiff by Judy Melinek MD and T.J. Mitchell Real Queer America by Samantha Allen Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Growing Things by Paul Tremblay Gumballs by Erin Nations I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya The Gameshouse by Claire North The Farm by Joanne Ramos The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

May 9, 2019 • 40min
Ep 99 - Mysteries But In A Hurry and Tom Ryan!
Brea and Mallory talk about thrillers vs. mysteries, and interview author Tom Ryan! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Lola Promo Code - 40% off with code GLASSES Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Tom Ryan Order Tom's Book Keep This To Yourself by Tom Ryan Books Mentioned - Let Me Lie by Claire Mackintosh Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig All About Love by bell hooks A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes Dare Me by Megan Abbott The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani Affinity by Sarah Waters Sunburn by Laura Lippman

May 2, 2019 • 29min
Ep 98 - French Flaps and Fancy Books and Alex Brown!
Brea and Mallory talk about fancy book extras and interview author Alex Brown! 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 MaxFun Pin Sale Alex Brown The Hidden History of Napa Valley by Alex Brown Punk-Ass Book Jockey Books Mentioned - Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado 78 Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack Night Film by Marisha Pessl Scream Site by Justina Ireland The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad All of Us With Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil Nature Poem by Tommy Pico