

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

Oct 4, 2018 • 49min
Ep 69 - Hot, Fresh Opinions and Delilah Dawson!
Brea and Mallory check in with their 2018 reader resolutions, talk about finding new books to read and interview author Delilah Dawson! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - EastSiders Kickstarter Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Delilah Dawson Delilah's Twitter Sparrowhawk Books Mentioned - Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams Dead Girls by Alice Bolin Lie to Me by J.T. Ellison Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison Written in Red by Anne Bishop Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Sep 27, 2018 • 46min
Ep 68 - Sci Fi is My Religion and Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders!
Brea and Mallory talk about science fiction and interview authors and hosts of Our Opinions Are Correct Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Amazon Fixed Kindle Link Our Opinons Are Correct Annalee Newitz https://twitter.com/annaleen Charlie Jane Anders https://twitter.com/charliejane Books Mentioned - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Exit Strategy by Martha Wells Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders Rock Manning Goes For Broke by Charlie Jane Anders Autonomous by Annalee Newitz Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Sep 20, 2018 • 43min
Ep 67 - Make Your Own Book Score and Grady Hendrix
Brea and Mallory talk about reading music and interview author Grady Hendrix! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Simple Contacts Enter code READING at checkout for $20 off! Links - Grady Hendrix We Sold Our Souls Delilah’s Phasma Playlist The Last Werewolf Album Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Machine Man by Max Barry The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch Phasma by Delilah Dawson The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan True Grit by Charles Portis

Sep 13, 2018 • 38min
Ep 66 - Write Your Own Book Rhyme and Ways to Mark Your Books
Brea and Mallory talk about personalizing your library and test out some library tech. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Mslexia CODE - GLASSES25 Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Sanpaku by Kate Gavino We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Ortberg The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine Disco’s Out… Murder’s In! by Heath Mattioli and David Spacone

Sep 6, 2018 • 38min
Ep 65 - Reading as Self-Care with Anne Bogel!
Brea and Mallory talk about reading as self care and interview author and podcaster Anne Bogel! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Mslexia.co.uk Code - GLASSES25 Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Anne Bogel I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel https://twitter.com/AnneBogel Books Mentioned - The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Padmasambhava, Karma Lingpa, translated by Elio Guarisco and Nancy Simmons Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) by Carol Tavris and Eliot Aronson Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith So Much I Want to Tell You by Anna Akana Okay Fine Whatever by Courtenay Hameister Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell The High Cost of Free Parking by Douglas Shoup Almost Everything by Anne Lamott Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman Urban Jungle by Igor Josifovic and Judith de Graaff

Aug 30, 2018 • 42min
Ep 64 - What's a Video Game and How Do I Read It? with Travis McElroy!
Brea and Mallory talk about game books and interview Travis McElroy! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Travis McElroy Buy The Adventure Zone here! Books Mentioned - It by Stephen King Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman The Good People by Hannah Kent The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi In the Woods by Tana French Kill the Next One by Federico Axat, translated by David Frye Mass Effect: Initiation by N.K. Jemisin and Mac Walters Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony Midshipman’s Hope by David Feintuch Dreadnought by April Daniels Lexicon by Max Barry

Aug 23, 2018 • 45min
Ep 63 - Tweets That You Ask For and Anne T. Donahue
Brea and Mallory talk about essays and essay collections and interview author Anne H. Donahue! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Anne T. Donahue https://twitter.com/annetdonahue Nobody Cares by Anne T Donahue Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Borderline by Mishell Baker Wicked by Gregory Maguire Grendel by John Gardner The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl You Don’t Have to Like Me by Alida Nugent One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton Ctrl Alt Delete by Emma Gannon

Aug 16, 2018 • 38min
Ep 62 - No Trivia Books in the Bathroom and Andy McElfresh!
Brea and Mallory talk about trivia books and interview author and podcaster Andy McElfresh. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch - NEW T-SHIRTS! Links - Transit App Andy McElfresh https://twitter.com/edumacationandy The Edumacation Book Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Spider Season by Billy Hanson Not That Bad edited by Roxane Gay Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson Bears Can’t Run Downhill by Robert Anwood Random Illustrated Facts by Mike Lowery Thank You for Being a Friend by Emma Lewis, illustrated by Chantel Desousa The Moral Arc by Michael Shermer Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Aug 9, 2018 • 37min
Ep 61 - Library Stew with Brazos Price
Brea and Mallory answer some behind the scene library questions with librarian Brazos Price! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Audible https://www.audible.com/glasses Or! Text “glasses” to 500-500 Links - Watch Brea’s movie - Dead Night! Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Column Amazon Wish List More Libraries Than McDonald’s Does The Dog Die Books Mentioned - Like Brothers by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut The Magicians by Lev Grossman Tamora Pierce The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir Trees by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard

Aug 2, 2018 • 32min
Ep 60 - F*&k That Whale and Other Public Domain Books
Brea and Mallory discuss public domain books and solve some book light problems. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Librivox Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Florida by Lauren Groff Sweet and Low by Nick White Find Me by Laura Van Den Burg Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Dune by Frank Herbert