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 40 - Reading with Kids, Horse Books and One Bad Mother’s Theresa Thorn
15/03/2018 Duración: 42minBrea 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
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Ep 39 - Break Up with Bad Books and Lore’s Aaron Mahnke
08/03/2018 Duración: 37minBrea 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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Ep 38 - Fitbits for Books and Other Book Apps plus Karen Keninger from the National Library Service!
01/03/2018 Duración: 44minBrea 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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Ep 37 - Drop that Book Guilt and a Review of a Plastic Bag!
22/02/2018 Duración: 41minBrea 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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Ep 36 - Small Presses, Microcosm Publishing and Big Relationship Advice
15/02/2018 Duración: 44minBrea 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 E
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Ep 35 - Classics are Goth, Leni Zumas and Advice to Get Rid of that Stinky Book!
08/02/2018 Duración: 36minBrea 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
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Ep 34 - Get More Pages In and John Hodgman!
01/02/2018 Duración: 40minBrea 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 Okoraf
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Ep 33 - If You Wanna be My Lover, You Gotta Get with My Library and Overdrive’s Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald!
25/01/2018 Duración: 40minBrea 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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Ep 32 - Audiobooks, Bed Hamburgers and Wil Wheaton!
18/01/2018 Duración: 36minBrea 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
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Ep 31 - Short Stories are Like a Box of Chocolates and Interview with author Amal El-Mohtar!
11/01/2018 Duración: 38minBrea 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 G
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Ep 30 - Adding more Ampersands to Your Life and New Year’s Resolutions You MIGHT ACTUALLY KEEP
04/01/2018 Duración: 25minThis 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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Ep 29 - Born with Glasses and Memoirs with Anna Akana
21/12/2017 Duración: 30minBrea and Mallory talk about reading memoirs, and interview writer and actor Anna Akana! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Tote Bags and Bookmarks - https://topatoco.com/collections/maximum-fun/reading-glasses Sponsor - Zola www.zola.com/readingglasses Anna Akana https://annaakana.com/ https://twitter.com/annaakana Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta https://gretta.com/1246042223/ Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Books Mentioned - The Murders of Molly Southborne by Tade Thompson The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Sky Is Falling by Kit Pearson Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cummings Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein The Ark of Asking by Amanda Palmer We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson You
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Ep 28 What to Give the Book Person who has Everything and Ask a Librarian with Brazos Price!
14/12/2017 Duración: 27minBrea and Mallory present the Reading Glasses Holiday Gift Giving Guide! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Tote Bags and Bookmarks- https://topatoco.com/collections/maximum-fun/products/maxf-rg-dnd-tote Amazon Wish List http://a.co/dw6o3Jx Sponsor - Storyworth storyworth.com/readingglasses Links - Abe Books https://www.abebooks.com Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta https://gretta.com/1246042223/ Reading Glasses Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/259287784548200/?ref=bookmarks Reading Glasses Goodreads Group https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/224423-reading-glasses---fan-group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article https://www.apex-magazine.com/ Books Mentioned - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780735224292 Old Man’s War by John Scalzi https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780765348272 The Name of the Wind by Pat Rothfuss htt
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Ep 27 Indie Bookstores: Great Place For A Date (Unless You're Mallory) and Steven Salardino of Skylight Books!
07/12/2017 Duración: 35minThis episode, Brea and Mallory talk about why indie bookstores are awesome, interview Skylight Books manager Steven Salardino and bust some page skipping book shame. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Tote Bags Sponsor - Storyworth Links - Annotated Indie Bookstore Episode Skylight Books Skylight's Twitter Skylight's Instagram Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Books Mentioned - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds All About Love by bell hooks Joy Williams TheMystery.Doc by Matthew McIntosh
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Ep 26 - Sexy, Naked Books and Book Cover Discussion! and Creative Director Lauren Panepinto
30/11/2017 Duración: 37minThis episode, Brea and Mallory talk about judging books by their covers and interview creative director Lauren Panepinto! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Amazon Wish List Reading Glasses Tote Bags Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Lauren Panepinto Her Twitter Drawn and Drafted Muddy Colors Books Mentioned - Machine Learning by Hugh Howey The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall The First Bad Man by Miranda July Stardust by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Charles Vess Grendel by John Gardner Borne by Jeff Vandermeer Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Universal Harvester by John Darnielle Bonfire by Krysten Ritter Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Now That I’m A Ghost, I’m Gay by Josh Lark Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
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Ep 25 - Do Bestseller Lists Matter?
23/11/2017 Duración: 32minThis episode, Brea and Mallory talk about bestseller lists and review some reading lights. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Sponsor - Zola Links - Reading Glasses Amazon Wish List Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Tote Bags Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Book Light Books Mentioned - The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict Witches, Sluts, Feminists by Kristen J. Sollee Her Bodies and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
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Ep 24 - How to Always Have Snacks and Other Self-Help Books and Brook Sitgraves Turner talks Adulting!
16/11/2017 Duración: 33minThis episode, Brea and Mallory bust some myths about self help books, talk to podcaster Brook Sitgraves Turner and review some book perfume. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Tote Bags Sponsor - HelloFresh Promo Code - readingglasses30 Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Book Perfume Short and Sweet Podcast Books Mentioned - Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero Dune by Frank Herbert Bossypants by Tina Fey Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay H Is For Hawk by Helen MacDonald Super You by Emily V. Gordon Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran Catching The Big Fish by David Lynch Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving A Fuck by Sarah Knight The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo The A
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Ep 23 - There's a Pencil Stuck in My Nose and Other Middle Grade Issues and a Colin Meloy Interview!
09/11/2017 Duración: 30minThis episode, Brea and Mallory discuss middle grade books, and interview author and musician Colin Meloy. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Send your thoughts to readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Tote Bags - https://topatoco.com/collections/maximum-fun/products/maxf-rg-dnd-tote Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta https://gretta.com/1246042223/ Reading Glasses Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/259287784548200/?ref=bookmarks Reading Glasses Goodreads Group https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/224423-reading-glasses---fan-group Apex Magazine https://www.apex-magazine.com/ Newbury Awards http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal Harper Collins Twitter https://twitter.com/HarperChildrens Colin Meloy https://twitter.com/colinmeloy http://colinmeloy.com/ https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062024701 https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062342454 Books Mentioned - Sourdough by
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Ep 22 - Should You Throw Away Your Books by Garbage People? and Jessa Crispin Interview!
02/11/2017 Duración: 35minThis episode, Brea and Mallory discuss book politics, interview author and podcaster Jessa Crispin and solve your bathtub reading problems. Use the hashtag #PagePolitics on Twitter and Instagram to participate in online discussion! Send your thoughts to readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com. Books Mentioned - A Night In The Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna Reading Glasses Tote Bags - https://topatoco.com/collections/maximum-fun/products/maxf-rg-dnd-tote Sponsor - Read Dog Books http://read.dog/about-us Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta https://gretta.com/1246042223/ Reading Glasses Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/259287784548200/?ref=bookmarks Reading Glasses Goodreads Group https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/224423-reading-glasses---fan-group J
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Ep 21- Small Talk at Parties or Werewolves: A Guide to Scary Halloween Books and Paul Tremblay
26/10/2017 Duración: 35minThis episode, Brea and Mallory talk Halloween reading and interview author Paul Tremblay. You can participate in online discussion by using #ScaryPages! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Sponsors - Read Dog Books http://read.dog/glasses Warby Parker https://www.warbyparker.com/readingglasses Books Mentioned - Kill Creek by Scott Thomas A Cold Season by Alison Littlewood My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman The Blondes by Emily Schultz The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Montillo The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury The Red Tree by Caitlin Kiernan Ghostland by Colin Dickey Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin Thin Air by Michelle Paver Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine Wool by Hugh Howey Books of Blood Vol. 1-3 by Clive Barker Notes on a Life by Eleanor Coppola