

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

Nov 22, 2018 • 42min
Ep 76 - Everyone's in the Loo and Claire Handscombe!
Brea and Mallory talk about literature from the UK and interview author and podcaster Claire Handscombe! 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 Operation Paperback Books for the Bases Guardian Books The Bookseller BBC Books and Authors The Highlow Claire Handscombe How To Stay Up To Date With British Book News The Brit Lit Podcast Her novel, Unscripted Books Mentioned - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue JELL-O Girls by Allie Rowbottom So Lucky by Nicola Griffith The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan Come to the Edge by Christina Haag

Nov 15, 2018 • 37min
Ep 75 - Don’t Put Mayonnaise On Your Books and Janelle Milanes!
Show Notes - Brea and Mallory discuss ways to repair your books and interview author Janelle Milanes! 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 BookMooch Janelle Milanes Analee in Real Life by Janelle Milanes https://twitter.com/janellemilanes Books Mentioned - True Indie by Don Coscarelli Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat and Wendy MacNaughton (Illustrator)

Nov 8, 2018 • 31min
Ep 74 - Book Detectives for Satan
Brea and Mallory talk about out of print books and solve your bookish moving problems. 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 Tramp Press Books Mentioned - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle

Nov 1, 2018 • 42min
Ep 73 - Literary Re-Tellings with L.L. McKinney
Brea and Mallory talk about literary retellings and interview author L.L. McKinney. 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 The Process Podcast L.L. McKinney A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney L.L.'s Twitter The Little Feminist Book Club Books Mentioned - The Last One by Alexandra Oliva The Strange Case of Dr. Couney by Dawn Raffel Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter Circe by Madeline Miller Fables Vol. 1 by Bill Willingham, James Jean, Alex Maleev For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig Dread Nation by Justina Ireland The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton Seafire by Natalie C. Parker

Oct 25, 2018 • 50min
Ep 72 - Scary Halloween Comics with Ben Blacker
Brea and Mallory talk about horror comics for Halloween with writer Ben Blacker! 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 Ben Blacker The Writer's Panel Hex Wives Buy Hex Wives Books Mentioned - The Burning of Bridget Cleary by Angela Bourke The Good People by Hannah Kent The Changeling by Victor LaValle A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd Creepy Comics Vol 1 Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse Vol 1 by Ben Templesmith We Will Bury You by Brea Grant, Zane Grant, Kyle Strahm (Artist) Hellblazer by Garth Ennis Preacher Vol 1 by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon Locke & Key, Vol. 1 by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez Babyteeth Volume 1 by Donny Cates and Garry Brown Animosity Vol. 1 by Marguerite Bennett and Eric Gapstur Insexts Vo. 1 by Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack Survivor's Club by Lauren Beukes and Dale Halvorsen Afterlife with Archie by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla Wytches by Scott Snyder and Jock American Vampire, Vol1 by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquereque Gideon Falls Vol 1 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino and Dave Stewart Rachel Rising Vol 1 by Terry Moore

Oct 18, 2018 • 46min
Ep 71 - Books for Halloweenies and Madeleine Roux!
Brea and Mallory talk about non-scary Halloween books and interview author Madeline Roux! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Watch Brea in Sleep No More! Mallory’s Vulture Article Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Madeleine Roux Twitter Instagram Madeleine's Books Books Mentioned - Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen The Wonder by Emma Donoghue The Babysitter At Rest by Jen George My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman Witches of Echo Park by Amber Benson Soulless by Gail Carriger Death Makes a Holiday by David J. Skal The Art of Starving by Sam Miller Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire Hack/Slash Omnibus Volume 1 by Tim Seeley, Stefano Caselli (Artist), Dave Crosland (Artist) Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis Dreamfall by Amy Plum The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson

Oct 11, 2018 • 43min
Ep 70 - Try the Hummus and Short Audio Fiction with Alasdair Stuart
Brea and Mallory talk about window shopping for books, short audio fiction and interview Alasdair Stuart about audio fiction podcasts! Links: Reading Glasses Merch Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Levar Burton Reads Podcasts Mentioned: Writer’s Voice Selected Shorts Nightlight Audio Boom Dr. Death Serial Make No Law Field Biology of the Wee Fairies, read by Brea Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart on twitter Escape Artists Escape Pod Books Mentioned The Third Hotel by Laura Van Den Berg There There by Tommy Orange Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Feather Thief by Kirk W. Johnson Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans Sourdough by Robin Sloane Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Con Artist by Fred Van Lente The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty American Hippo by Sarah Gailey

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