

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

Jun 14, 2018 • 44min
Ep 53 - Too Much Dog Death, Book Reviews and Alex Brown!
Brea and Mallory talk about book reviews and interview book reviewer Alex Brown. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Care/Of https://takecareof.com Promo Code - glasses Links - Harry Potter Alliance Rosemary’s Baby Stage Reading Live Event with Paul Tremblay Alex Brown https://www.tor.com/author/alex-brown/ https://twitter.com/QueenOfRats Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Tor.com Smart Bitches Trashy Books Best Thrillers Kirkus Reviews London Review of Books Fiction Writers Review NPR Book Reviews io9 Book Riot SFF Sword and Laser Podcasts- All The Books Professional Book Nerds Get Booked What Should I Read Next? NYT Book Review Podcast Bangin’ Book Club Paris Review Books Mentioned - Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick Witchmark by C.L. Polk Bruja Born Zoraida Caordova Red Threads of Fortune by Jy Yang River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

Jun 7, 2018 • 40min
Ep 52 - Two Werewolves F*%king and Other Self Published Books and Leslye Penelope!
Brea and Mallory talk about self published books and interview author Leslye Penelope! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - StoryWorth For $20 off, visit storyworth.com/readingglasses Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List RB Digital Leio Reading Glasses Live Event Leslye Penelope https://twitter.com/leslyepenelope Song of Blood & Stone by Leslye Penelope Books Mentioned - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay Demi-Gods by Eliza Robertson All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

May 31, 2018 • 49min
Ep 51 - Making Book Friends, Book Priests and author Bethany C Morrow!
Brea and Mallory talk about making bookish friends and interview author Bethany C. Morrow. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Reading Glasses LIVE at the Last Bookstore with Paul Tremblay 7/1! Live Stream Book Pick - Circe by Madeline Miller- 6/5 at 7 pm! PST Join us! Links - Bethany C. Morrow https://twitter.com/BCMorrow MEM - out now! Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker Golden Vance vol. 1 by Hope Larson, art by Brittney Williams and Sarah Stern The Lonely City by Olivia Laing The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi Black Helicopters by Caitlin Kiernan After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

May 24, 2018 • 35min
Ep 50 - Pod-i-versary Ep - We Answer Questions!
Brea and Mallory celebrate 50 episodes of Reading Glasses! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Mr. Warren’s Profession by Sebastian Nothwell Links - Live Show Tickets - Reading Glasses in conversation with Paul Tremblay! Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Podcast Recs - Black Tapes, Limetown, LUCYD, Alice Isn’t Dead, Rabbits, Pacific Northwest Stories, TED Talks, Imaginary Worlds, Invisibilia, Revisionist History, My Favorite Murder, Can I Pet Your Dog? Books Mentioned - The Changeling by Victor LaValle This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins Courtney Crumrin by Ted Naifeh Asylum by Madeline Roux My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker #girlboss by Sophia Amoruso We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Fowler Circe by Madeline Miller Yes Please by Amy Poehler Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson Shrill by Lindy West

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


