Sinopsis
Want to learn how to make the most of your reading life? Join Brea Grant and Mallory OMeara 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 wont stop talking while youre 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.
Episodios
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Ep 118 - Co-Written Books with Maika & Maritza Moulite!
19/09/2019 Duración: 41minBrea and Mallory talk to authors Maika and Maritza Moulite about co-written books. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsors - The Great Courses Plus TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/glasses Arm & Hammer Cloud Control Cat Litter Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Maika and Maritza Moulite Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite Maika's Twitter Maritza's Twitter Books Mentioned - The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller Insexts Volume 1 by Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina (Artist) Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake I'm Not Dying With You Tonight by Gilly
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Ep 117 - Reading Series Is Like Dating and JY Yang!
12/09/2019 Duración: 48minBrea and Mallory talk about book series and interview writer JY Yang. 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 Newsletter Book Buddy JY Yang https://twitter.com/halleluyang https://www.patreon.com/jyyang The Ascent to Godhood by JY Yang Books Mentioned - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett The Guin Saga Manga by Kazuaki Yanagisawa Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older In The Woods by Tana French Homeland by R.A. Salvatore Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear by Walter Moers Storm Front (Dresden Files #1) by Jim Butcher The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
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Ep 116 - Books on the Immigrant Experience and Tope Folarin!
05/09/2019 Duración: 46minMallory and Brea talk about great books on the immigrant experience and interview author Tope Folarin! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Lola mylola.com Promo Code - Glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Donation Links https://www.raicestexas.org/ https://www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/project-corazon https://secure.actblue.com/ Tope Folarin https://twitter.com/topefolarin A Particular Kind of Black Man by Tope Folarin Books Mentioned - The Hunger by Alma Katsu Naturally Tan by Tan France Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman (Translator) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Behold the Dreams by Imbolo Mbue Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz Night
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Ep 115 - Books That Make You Feel Old and Other Historical Fiction with E.R. Ramzipoor!
29/08/2019 Duración: 52minBrea and Mallory talk about historical fiction with E.R. Ramzipoor! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Promo Code - http://TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Live Show Stream Link E.R. Ramzipoor https://twitter.com/er_ramzipoor The Ventriloquists by E.R. Ramzipoor Books Mentioned - City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, illustrated by Jon Klassen Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Circe by Madeline Miller The Wonder by Emma Donoghue Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson Beowulf:
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Ep 114 - A Lovely Bread Dream and Other Happy Books and Gabrielle Civil!
22/08/2019 Duración: 44minBrea and Mallory talk about books that make you happy and interview black feminist performance artist and poet Gabrielle Civil. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Plus Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Libro.fm https://libro.fm/ Mallory’s Event Page Brea’s Movies Something Else at Fantastic Fest The Vicious at Horrible Imaginings Gabrielle Civil Experiments in Joy by Gabrielle Civil Books Mentioned - Growing Things by Paul Tremblay Women & Power by Mary Beard The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple Sourdough by Robin Sloan The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo The Source of Self-Regar
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Ep 113 - Who’s Making These Books?
15/08/2019 Duración: 33minBrea and Mallory break down publishing and solve some review guilt problems! 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 Newsletter Books Mentioned - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Wilder Girls by Rory Power Tacky Goblin by T. Sean Steele The Lady from the Black Lagoon (Large Print) by Mallory O'Meara Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
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Ep 112 -How to Boil Water and Other Cookbooks and Sam Slaughter!
08/08/2019 Duración: 48minBrea and Mallory talk about cookbooks and interview writer Sam Slaughter! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Lola mylola.com Use code GLASSES when you subscribe! Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Recipe Tracker App - Paprika Sam Slaughter Sam's Twitter Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum? by Sam Slaughter Books Mentioned - Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Movers and Shakers by Hope Ewing The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook edited by Louise Hagler and Dorothy R. Bates Chloe's Kitchen by Chloe Coscarelli Isa Does It by Isa Chandra Moskowitz Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails by David Kaplan, Nick Fauchald, and Alex Day Smuggler's Cove by Martin Cate and Rebecca Cate Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
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Ep 111 - Dusty, Sweaty Westerns and Del Howison!
01/08/2019 Duración: 28minBrea and Mallory talk about westerns and interview author Del Howison! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Del Howison The Survival of Margaret Thomas by Del Howison Buy at Dark Delicacies Books Mentioned - Recursion by Blake Crouch Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson River of Porcupines by G. K. Aalborg The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry True Grit by Charles Portis Lone Star Planet by Henry Beam Piper River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen Tempest by Beverly Jenkins The Gunslinger by Stephen King The Hunger by Alma Katsu American Vampire by Scott Snyder, Stephen King, Rafael Albuquereque Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman Aloha Rodeo by David Wolman and Julian Smith Depth of Winter by Craig Johnso
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Ep 110 - The Benefits of the Snargle-Flargen - Your Brain on Books
25/07/2019 Duración: 31minBrea and Mallory talk about what books do to your brain! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Plus Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Books Mentioned - They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib The Ice House by Minette Walters 1984 by George Orwell Passing by Nella Larsen Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
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Ep 109 - When a Book is On a Bagel You Can Buy It Anytime and Matilda Sabal from the Bluestockings NYC Bookstore!
18/07/2019 Duración: 42minBrea and Mallory talk about their rules for buying books and interview Matilda Sabal from the Bluestockings NYC Bookstore! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Plus TheGreatCoursesPlus.Com/Glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Veteran Reading Service Bluestockings NYC https://twitter.com/bluestockings https://www.instagram.com/bluestockingsnyc/ Matilda's Instagram Books Mentioned - Afterlife with Archie by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla The Killer Across the Table by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Autonomous by Annalee Newitz A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson
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Ep 108 - Prison Libraries and How to Help Them and Jill Grunenwald
11/07/2019 Duración: 37minBrea and Mallory talk about prison libraries and talk to author and podcaster Jill Grunenwald! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Promo Code - TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/Glasses Sponsor - Lola MyLola.com Promo Code - Glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Prison Book Programs Jill Grunenwald https://twitter.com/Jill_Grun Professional Book Nerds Reading Behind Bars Books Mentioned - Exhalation by Ted Chiang The Girl Who Slept with God by Val Brelinski Tacky Goblin by T. Sean Steele An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten, (Translated by) Marlaine Delargy Someone We Know by Shari Lapena
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Ep 107 - Test Out God and Other Nonfiction with Ross Blocher and Carrie Poppy
04/07/2019 Duración: 50minBrea and Mallory tick off another box on the Reading Glasses 2019 Reader Challenge with Carrie Poppy and Ross Blocher from Oh No Ross and Carrie! - read a nonfiction book you don’t know anything about! 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 Newsletter Oh No Ross and Carrie! https://www.facebook.com/ONRAC/ https://twitter.com/ohnopodcast Books Mentioned - Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols Experimental Film by Gemma Files The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin The Body Keeps
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Ep 106 - Pride Reading Recommendations 2019
27/06/2019 Duración: 28minBrea and Mallory recommend books for Pride month! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Arm and Hammer Cloud Control Kitty Litter Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Books Mentioned - The Farm by Joanne Ramos Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett Out by Natsuo Kirino Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia I Can't Date Jesus by Michael Arceneaux Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country by Chavisa Woods An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Sweet and Low by Nick White Zami by Audre Lorde Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
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Ep 105 - Authors are Like Spiders with Sarah Kuhn!
20/06/2019 Duración: 48minBrea and Mallory tick off another box on the 2019 Reading Glasses Reader Challenge - tell an author you love their work - with author Sarah Kuhn! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Arm and Hammer Cloud Control Kitty Litter! Sponsor - The Great Courses - The Art of Reading TheGreatCourses.com/Glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Sarah Kuhn https://twitter.com/sarahkuhn I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn Books Mentioned - The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh Dig by A.S. King A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
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Ep 104 - Empty Planets, Trains and Swamps and Deb Spera!
13/06/2019 Duración: 42minBrea and Mallory talk about a book’s sense of place and interview author Deb Spera! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses The Art of Reading TheGreatCourses.com/glasses Sponsor - Arm and Hammer Cloud Control Cat Litter Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Deb Spera https://twitter.com/DebSpera Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera Books Mentioned - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey The Book of Flying by Keith Miller The Power by Naomi Alderman Bloodchild by Octavia Butler The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley The Gloaming by Melanie Finn Melmoth by Sarah Perry Infomocracy by Malka Older Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender Amatka (Paperback) By Karin Tidbeck A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry The Stor
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Ep 103 - Cups and Balls and Magic with Sarah Gailey
06/06/2019 Duración: 48minBrea and Mallory talk about magic systems with author Sarah Gailey! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Storyworth storyworth.com/readingglasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Sarah Gailey Sarah's Twitter Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey See Sarah and Mallory at Skylight Books in LA on 6/13! Books Mentioned - The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor The Magicians by Lev Grossman Sabriel by Garth Nix Get in Trouble by Kelly Link Exit West by Mohsin Hamid In The Woods by Tana French Doom Patrol Vol. 1 by Gerard Way and Nick Derington
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Ep 102 - How To Talk About Books and Stoya!
30/05/2019 Duración: 37minBrea and Mallory discuss the best way to talk about books and interview author Stoya. 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 Newsletter Stoya Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn by Stoya https://twitter.com/stoya https://www.instagram.com/stoya/ Sorting Hat Chats Women of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text What’s the Name of That Book? Name That Book LibraryThing The Fiction_L listserv Reddit’s whatsthatbook thread "Stump the Bookseller" blog Big Book Search Books Mentioned - The Rending and the Nest by Kaethe Schwehn Maid by Stephanie Land Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix The Vagina Bible by Jennifer Gunter You Daughters of Freedom by Claire Wright
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Ep 101 - Animal, Vegetable or Jesus? And Other Nature Books and Meredith May!
23/05/2019 Duración: 37minBrea and Mallory talk about nature books and interview author Meredith May! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Promo Code - TheGreatCourses.com/Glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Meredith May twitter.com/MeredithMaySF The Honey Bus by Meredith May Books Mentioned - The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein The Editor by Steven Rowley Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien
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Ep 100 - Reader Challenge Check In - Our 100th Episode!
16/05/2019 Duración: 39minBrea and Mallory celebrate 100 episodes of Reading Glasses with a reading challenge check in! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses Promo Code - TheGreatCourses.com/GLASSES Sponsor - BookCon Promo Code - BookCon2019.com/ReadingGlasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Books Mentioned - Middlegame by Seanan McGuire Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) Flowers of Mold & Other Stories by Seong-Nan Ha, Janet Hong (Translator) Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell Prism Stalker Volume 1 by Sloane Leong When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll Working Stiff by Judy Melinek MD and T.J. Mitchell Real Queer America by Samantha Allen Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Mach
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Ep 99 - Mysteries But In A Hurry and Tom Ryan!
09/05/2019 Duración: 40minBrea and Mallory talk about thrillers vs. mysteries, and interview author Tom Ryan! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Lola Promo Code - 40% off with code GLASSES Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Tom Ryan Order Tom's Book Keep This To Yourself by Tom Ryan Books Mentioned - Let Me Lie by Claire Mackintosh Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig All About Love by bell hooks A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes Dare Me by Megan Abbott The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani Affinity by Sarah Waters Sunburn by Laura Lippman