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 63 - Tweets That You Ask For and Anne T. Donahue
23/08/2018 Duración: 45minBrea and Mallory talk about essays and essay collections and interview author Anne H. Donahue! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Anne T. Donahue https://twitter.com/annetdonahue Nobody Cares by Anne T Donahue Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Borderline by Mishell Baker Wicked by Gregory Maguire Grendel by John Gardner The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl You Don’t Have to Like Me by Alida Nugent One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul The View from the Cheap
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Ep 62 - No Trivia Books in the Bathroom and Andy McElfresh!
16/08/2018 Duración: 37minBrea and Mallory talk about trivia books and interview author and podcaster Andy McElfresh. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch - NEW T-SHIRTS! Links - Transit App Andy McElfresh https://twitter.com/edumacationandy The Edumacation Book Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Spider Season by Billy Hanson Not That Bad edited by Roxane Gay Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson Bears Can’t Run Downhill by Robert Anwood Random Illustrated Facts by Mike Lowery Thank You for Being a Friend by Emma Lewis, illustrated by Chantel Desousa The Moral Arc by Michael Shermer Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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Ep 61 - Library Stew with Brazos Price
09/08/2018 Duración: 36minBrea and Mallory answer some behind the scene library questions with librarian Brazos Price! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Audible https://www.audible.com/glasses Or! Text “glasses” to 500-500 Links - Watch Brea’s movie - Dead Night! Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Column Amazon Wish List More Libraries Than McDonald’s Does The Dog Die Books Mentioned - Like Brothers by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut The Magicians by Lev Grossman Tamora Pierce The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir Trees by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
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Ep 60 - F*&k That Whale and Other Public Domain Books
02/08/2018 Duración: 32minBrea and Mallory discuss public domain books and solve some book light problems. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Librivox Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Florida by Lauren Groff Sweet and Low by Nick White Find Me by Laura Van Den Burg Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Dune by Frank Herbert
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Pop Up Video for Books and Anthony Oliveira!
26/07/2018 Duración: 37minBrea and Mallory talk about annotated books and interview writer and scholar Anthony Oliveira. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Simple Contacts - simplecontacts.com/reading or use the code reading at check out Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Anthony Oliveira https://www.patreon.com/meakoopa Anthony's Twitter Books Mentioned - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Yes Please by Amy Poehler In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire Room To Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud The Prince and The Dressmaker by Jen Wang The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, translated by Richard Howard Paradise Lost by John Milton Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
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Ep 58 - Reading Sword and Glasses Laser - Crossover Episode!
19/07/2018 Duración: 01h05minOh man! It’s our first crossover episode! We’re doing an episode with Sword and Laser! Brea, Veronica, Mallory and Tom solve a reader problem and discuss the book Mortal Engines! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Sword and Laser https://twitter.com/swordandlaser Tom Merritt Veronica Belmont Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Captain Kirk Bourbon Locus Award Winners Pulp Sabotage by Richard Kadrey Books Mentioned - Mortal Engines by Philip Reeves Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan The Changeling by Victor LaValle Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
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Ep 57 - Books That Changed Your Life and Guy Branum!
12/07/2018 Duración: 44minBrea and Mallory talk about books that have changed our lives and interview author and comedian Guy Branum. 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 The Last Bookstore event with A.J.K. Donnell Guy Branum https://twitter.com/guybranum Pre Order My Life As A Goddess Pop Rocket Talk Show The Game Show Books Mentioned - Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix How to be Famous: A Novel by Caitlin Moran The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Where I Was From by Joan Didion Mythologies by Roland Barthes Maurice by E.M. Forster The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Decca by Jess
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Ep 56 - So Many Crimes and Billy Jensen!
05/07/2018 Duración: 47minBrea and Mallory talk about true crime books and interview author and investigative journalist Billy Jensen. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Pre-Order Mallory’s Book! The Lady from the Black Lagoon Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List True Crime Article Billy Jensen https://twitter.com/Billyjensen Books Mentioned - Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Alice + Freda Forever by Alexis Coe People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Perry American Fire by Monica Hesse I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara Bad Blood by John Carreyrou The Alienist by Caleb Carr The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson
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Ep 55 - Should You be Afraid of the Bermuda Triangle and Oh No Ross and Carrie!’s Ross Blocher!
28/06/2018 Duración: 48minBrea and Mallory talk about spooky nonfiction with special guest, Ross Blocher, from Oh No Ross and Carrie! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Oh No Ross and Carrie http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/oh-no-ross-and-carrie Kid Lit Says No Kids In Cages Pre-Order Mallory’s Book! The Lady from the Black Lagoon Reading Glasses Live Event 7/1 NoveList Plus Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Gulp by Mary Roach Night Shift by Joanna Angel The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil Stories from the Messengers by Mike Clelland The Alienist by Caleb Carr Abominable Science! by Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero Stiff by Mary Roach Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum Ghostland by Colin Dickey Trolls by John Lindow Sc
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Ep 54 - Reading is Dangerous and Other Health Tips
21/06/2018 Duración: 30minBrea and Mallory talk about reader health and try listening to sped up audiobooks. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Brit Lit Podcast Live Event with Paul Tremblay 7/1 Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg So Lucky by Nicola Griffith Mem by Bethany C. Morrow The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin Sweet and Low by Nick White Time Was by Ian McDonald
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Ep 53 - Too Much Dog Death, Book Reviews and Alex Brown!
14/06/2018 Duración: 43minBrea 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 Eliza
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Ep 52 - Two Werewolves F*%king and Other Self Published Books and Leslye Penelope!
07/06/2018 Duración: 39minBrea 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
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Ep 51 - Making Book Friends, Book Priests and author Bethany C Morrow!
31/05/2018 Duración: 49minBrea 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 Grea
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Ep 50 - Pod-i-versary Ep - We Answer Questions!
24/05/2018 Duración: 35minBrea 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 Amorus
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Ep 49 - Punching Submarines and author Brian McClellan
17/05/2018 Duración: 44minBrea 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
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Ep 48 - Books to Make You Sh*t Yourself and Norton publicist Will Scarlett!
10/05/2018 Duración: 41minBrea 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
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Ep 47 - When Two Books Love Each Other and editor Navah Wolfe!
03/05/2018 Duración: 41minBrea 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
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Ep 46 - Put it on a Clock, Book Notes and Brazos talks about VR!
26/04/2018 Duración: 29minBrea 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
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Ep 45 - Readers Doing Good with Patrick Rothfuss
19/04/2018 Duración: 38minBrea 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 An
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Ep 44 - Fuck Boys, Get Horses with Erin Whitehead
12/04/2018 Duración: 43minMallory, 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