Reading Glasses

Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara
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Mar 8, 2018 • 37min

Ep 39 - Break Up with Bad Books and Lore’s Aaron Mahnke

Brea and Mallory help you break up with bad books and interview writer and podcaster Aaron Mahnke. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch   Sponsor - SquareSpace www.squarespace.com 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     Aaron Mahnke http://aaronmahnke.com/ http://theworldoflore.com/books/ Twitter Lore   Books Mentioned - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen   The Merman by Carl-Johan Vallgren, translated by Ellen Flynn The Turner House by Angela Flournoy   Artemis by Andy Weir The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 11/22/63 by Stephen King    
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Mar 1, 2018 • 45min

Ep 38 - Fitbits for Books and Other Book Apps plus Karen Keninger from the National Library Service!

Brea and Mallory review book apps and interview Karen Keninger from the National Library Service! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   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   Links - Staunch Book Prize Kindle App Audible App Goodreads Hoopla   Comixology Overdrive Libby   Litsy BookOut   Bookling Reading List   BookCrawler LibraryThing Libib National Library Service   Braille eReader   Books Mentioned -   Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan   Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang   March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell  
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Feb 22, 2018 • 41min

Ep 37 - Drop that Book Guilt and a Review of a Plastic Bag!

Brea and Mallory help absolve guilt about reading for pleasure and review some pretty weird reading aids. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Tote Bags   Sponsor - SquareSpace Promo Code - GLASSES   Links -   Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List   Thumb Thing Books Mentioned -   Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt   The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Provenance by Ann Leckie The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley   Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey   The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson  
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Feb 15, 2018 • 44min

Ep 36 - Small Presses, Microcosm Publishing and Big Relationship Advice

Brea and Mallory talk about small presses, interview Joe Biel from Microcosm Press, and give out some intense relationship advice. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Tote Bags Barkbox barkbox.com/glasses   Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Book Riot Small Press Quiz   Graywolf Press Soft Skull Press   Small Beer Press   Feminist Press Unnamed Press Melville House Hawthorne Press Coffee House Press   Two Dollar Radio Microcosm   Books Mentioned -   Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman Crash Override by Zoe Quinn Wildwood by Colin Melon The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman   Coraline by Neil Gaiman   The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman   Narconomics by Tom Wainwright   Subversives by Seth Rosenfield Trouble Boys by Bob Mehr   So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson   Scam by Erick Lyle    
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Feb 8, 2018 • 36min

Ep 35 - Classics are Goth, Leni Zumas and Advice to Get Rid of that Stinky Book!

Brea and Mallory discuss whether or not it’s worth reading classic literature, and interview author Leni Zumas. 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 - Leni Zumas Leni's Twitter Leni's Website   Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta   Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Reading Glasses Amazon Wish List     Books Mentioned - The Nature Fix by Florence Williams Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Palaces by Simon Jacobs   The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnafons Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs   The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins   The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon Obras by Juana Ines de la Cruz Gates and Fields by Jennifer Firestone Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim    
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Feb 1, 2018 • 40min

Ep 34 - Get More Pages In and John Hodgman!

Brea and Mallory give out hot tips on getting more reading in and interview author and podcaster John Hodgman! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   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   John Hodgman John's Twitter Judge John Hodgman Podcast       BookBeaus     Books Mentioned -   The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood   Find Me be Laura Van Den Berg   Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh Moby Dick by Herman Melville   Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace   The Hunter by Richard Stark Provenance by Ann Leckie The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu   Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm by Alice and Martin Provensen Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor  
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Jan 25, 2018 • 41min

Ep 33 - If You Wanna be My Lover, You Gotta Get with My Library and Overdrive’s Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald!

Brea and Mallory revel in the glory of libraries, and interview Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald from Overdrive. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch   Sponsor - SquareSpace   Promo Code - glasses   Links -   Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Reading Glasses Amazon Wish List   Litsy Overdrive Libby  Professional Book Nerds Podcast https://twitter.com/probooknerds Books Mentioned -   Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet The Party by Elizabeth Day The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan   The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas   Thornhill by Pam Smy Iron Gold by Pierce Brown The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood  
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Jan 18, 2018 • 37min

Ep 32 - Audiobooks, Bed Hamburgers and Wil Wheaton!

Brea and Mallory finally talk about audiobooks, and interview actor, writer and audiobook performer Wil Wheaton! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Links -   Audible Penguin Random House Audio Overdrive Libby   Loyal Books Digital Book Open Culture Audie Awards   Wil Wheaton https://twitter.com/wilw https://wilwheaton.bandcamp.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Books-Wil-Wheaton https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Wil+Wheaton Books Mentioned - Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore   Red Clocks by Leni Zumas   Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Sex Object by Jessica Valenti The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery   Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson   The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Exit West by Mohsin Hamid   Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory   Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds   The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman Hunger by Roxane Gay   Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Night Shift by Stephen King Carter Beats The Devil by Glen Gold House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski   Hell House by Richard Matheson   Crash Override by Zoe Quinn The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer  
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Jan 11, 2018 • 39min

Ep 31 - Short Stories are Like a Box of Chocolates and Interview with author Amal El-Mohtar!

Brea and Mallory talk about short fiction and interview author Amal El-Mohtar! 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 -   Tor.Com New Yorker The Rumpus Apex Magazine Kindle Singles   Nevertheless She Persisted by Tor.Com Book Light Amal El-Mohtar   "Seasons of Glass and Iron" The Starlit Wood Amal's Twitter Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List   Books Mentioned -   City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty   The Misfit’s Manifesto by Lidia Yukanvitch Get In Trouble by Kelly Link St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell Dead Trees Give No Shelter by Wil Wheaton   Best American Short Stories 2017 The Doll Collection Bloodchild by Octavia Butler What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi Revenge by Yoko Ogawa Gutshot by Amelia Gray Starlings by Jo Walton Tender by Sofia Samatar   Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado The Weight of Words - story by Maria Dahvana Headley Telling The Map by Christopher Rowe Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison  
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Jan 4, 2018 • 26min

Ep 30 - Adding more Ampersands to Your Life and New Year’s Resolutions You MIGHT ACTUALLY KEEP

This episode, Brea and Mallory help you make some New Year’s reader resolutions and test out a reading journal! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Tote Bags Links -   Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article     Reading Journal Book Riot Read Harder Challenge   Books Mentioned -   Chemistry by Weike Wang   The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne   Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle  

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