

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

May 17, 2018 • 45min
Ep 49 - Punching Submarines and author Brian McClellan
Brea and Mallory talk about military fiction and interview author Brian McClellan. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Care.com/glasses Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Brian McClellan https://twitter.com/BrianTMcClellan Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan (ON SALE!!) War Cry by Brian McClellan - PRE-ORDER! We Have Always Fought by Kameron Hurley Books Mentioned - Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride Old Man’s War by John Scalzi All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka Generation Kill by Evan Wright Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Girl at War by Sara Novic 1453 by Roger Crowley The Thousand Names by Django Wexler Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell The Black Count by Tom Reiss Quote at the end from White Teeth by Zadie Smith

May 10, 2018 • 41min
Ep 48 - Books to Make You Sh*t Yourself and Norton publicist Will Scarlett!
Brea and Mallory talk about book blurbs and interview W.W. Norton publicist Will Scarlett! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsors - StoryWorth storyworth.com/readingglasses For $20 off! Casper casper.com/glasses Promo Code - Glasses Links - Will Scarlett W.W. Norton https://twitter.com/wwnorton Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Book Club Pick - Circe by Madeline Miller Books Mentioned - The Manson Women and Me by Nikki Meredith The Pisces by Melissa Broder The Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd The Overstory by Richard Powers The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin Truevine by Beth Macy My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris The Last Cowboys by John Branch

May 3, 2018 • 41min
Ep 47 - When Two Books Love Each Other and editor Navah Wolfe!
Brea and Mallory talk about how books get made and interview editor Navah Wolfe! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses 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 Navah Wolfe Saga Press https://twitter.com/sagasff Books Mentioned - Warcross by Marie Lu Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran The Power by Naomi Alderman Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik The Starlit Wood edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland Impostor Syndrome by Mishell Baker

Apr 26, 2018 • 29min
Ep 46 - Put it on a Clock, Book Notes and Brazos talks about VR!
Brea and Mallory talk about what to do with quotes from books. 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 Books Mentioned - 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl The Wrong Way To Save Your Life by Megan Stielstra Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud edited by Anne Helen Petersen Shallow Selfish and Self Absorbed edited by Meghan Daum Rookie Yearbook edited by Tavi Gevinson Luminescent Threads edited by Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris Whip Smart by Melissa Febos Stardust by Neil Gaiman Quote at the End from Doctors’ Stories by Kathryn Montgomery Hunter

Apr 19, 2018 • 38min
Ep 45 - Readers Doing Good with Patrick Rothfuss
Brea and Mallory talk about ways to do good as a reader and interview author Patrick Rothfuss! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Tote Bags Sponsor - Care.com https://www.care.com Promo Code - GLASSES For 30%! Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Patrick Rothfuss https://twitter.com/PatrickRothfuss Worldbuilders The Tinker's Packs Prison Book Program Inside Books Project Literacy For Incarcerated Teens Women’s Book Project World Literacy Foundation First Book Room to Read Concord Free Press Books Mentioned - Six Months, Three Days and Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle Paper Girls vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang (Artist), Matthew Wilson (Artist) Black Hole by Charles Burns Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Another Way To Fall by Brian Evenson and Paul Tremblay The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

Apr 12, 2018 • 43min
Ep 44 - Fuck Boys, Get Horses with Erin Whitehead
Mallory, Brea and special guest Erin Whitehead talk about the magical world of horse books. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Maximum Fun Drive! http://maximumfun.org/donate Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Reading Glasses Merch Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Erin Whitehead Wild Horses Book Thing Books Mentioned - An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Night Shift by Stephen King After the Eclipse by Sarah Perry Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry Album of Horses by Marguerite Henry Black Beauty by Anna Sewell The Black Stallion by Walter Farley The Saddle Club #1 by Bonnie Bryant A Horse Called Wonder by Joanna Campbell The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Unicorns of Balinor by Mary Stanton

Apr 5, 2018 • 43min
Ep 43 - Bookish Internet, Panda Aunts and Jonny Sun!
Brea and Mallory talk about the wonder of the bookish Internet and interview author/illustrator Jonny Sun! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! MaxFun Drive - http://maximumfun.org/donate Reading Glasses Tote Bags Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List BookRiot The Rumpus Literary Hub Electric Literature BuzzFeed Books WattPad A Bookish Type Smart Bitches Trashy Books Epic Reads Publisher’s Weekly Jonny Sun Jonny's Twitter Get Jonny's book here or here. Clint Smith on Twitter Spritz Books Mentioned - All Summer Long by Hope Larson The Clasp by Sloane Crosley 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufekci You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack by Tom Gauld

Mar 29, 2018 • 39min
Ep 42 - Don’t Be A Moby Dick in Your Online Book Club and comicbookgirl19!
Brea and Mallory talk about online books clubs and interview comicbookgirl19! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Tote Bags Sponsor - Casper - www.casper.com/glasses Promo Code - GLASSES Audible - www.audible.com/glasses Text GLASSES to 500-500 Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Comicbookgirl19 https://www.youtube.com/comicbookgirl19 https://twitter.com/cbgirl19 https://www.twitch.tv/comicbookgirl19 Well Read Black Girl Vaginal Fantasy Oprah Book Club Books Mentioned - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara The Honey Farm by Harriet Alida Lye How To Flirt With a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy Watchmen by Alan Moore Dune by Frank Herbert The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins Fuck Whales by Maddox What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Mar 22, 2018 • 48min
Ep 41 - Radical Book Acceptance and Interview with Amanda Palmer!
Show Notes - Brea and Mallory help you clean off your crowded bookshelves and interview author and musician Amanda Palmer. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Tote Bags Sponsor - Squarespace Offer code: glasses Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Amanda Palmer https://www.patreon.com/amandapalmer https://twitter.com/amandapalmer The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer Books Mentioned - The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat?) by Brittany Gibbons Pizzeria Kamikaze by Asaf Hanuka (Illustrator), Etgar Keret Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy Amatka by Karin Tidbeck The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser The Future is History by Masha Gessen The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Mar 15, 2018 • 43min
Ep 40 - Reading with Kids, Horse Books and One Bad Mother’s Theresa Thorn
Brea and Mallory talk about reading with children, and interview author and podcaster Theresa Thorn. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Tote Bags Links - iPhone hack - On iPhones, go to settings > general > accessibility > display accommodations > color filters > Grayscale Theresa Thorn - One Bad Mother https://twitter.com/theresathorn Theresa's Book Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood Lost At School by Ross W. Greene Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon Who Needs Donuts? By Mark Alan Stamaty What Makes a Baby by Corey Silverberg Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe And Baby Makes Three by John M. Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel