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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.

Latest Episodes:

Ep 139 - What To Do When an Author Says Something Shitty Feb 13, 2020

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Brea and Mallory talk about what to do when an author you love says something you hate. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Reading Glasses Facebook Group

Reading Glasses Goodreads Group

Amazon Wish List

Brea’s Romantic Monster Movie

See the movie when Brea in Los Angeles!

Books Mentioned -

You Can't Kill Me Twice by Charlyne Yi

Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean Hicks

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib

Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

How to Be Alone by Lane Moore

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Ep 138 - Reading Books Set In Another Country Feb 06, 2020

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Brea and Mallory talk about reading books set in another country and give advice about library holds frustration! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Reading Glasses Facebook Group

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Amazon Wish List

The Fanciest Book

Mallory’s LA Book Launch Party

Books Mentioned -

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer

The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders

The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg

Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook

He Died with a Felafel in His Hand by John Birmingham

What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

Little Gods by Meng Jin

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

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Ep 137 - Being Part of the Book Community and Riley Black! Jan 30, 2020

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Brea and Mallory talk about being a part of the book community and interview author Riley Black! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Reading Glasses Facebook Group

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Riley's Twitter

Riley's Patreon

Books Mentioned -

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride

Bitten by Kelley Armstrong

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner

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Ep 136 - This Motherf**ker Was Picked By Oprah! Jan 23, 2020

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Brea and Mallory discuss celebrity book club picks and test out a reading challenge app! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Reading Glasses Facebook Group

Reading Glasses Goodreads Group

Amazon Wish List

Jill Hamilton’s Book Blog

Mallory’s Book Pre Order

The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara

Brea’s Movie Pre Order

Mallory's Los Angeles Book Launch

Book Censorship in Missouri

Books Mentioned -

How to Invent Everything by Ryan North

Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Widdershins by Jordan L. Hawk

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Ep 135 - Re-Reading Books and Mike Chen! Jan 16, 2020

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Brea and Mallory talk about re-reading books and interview author Mike Chen! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Reading Glasses Facebook Group

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A Beginning At The End by Mike Chen

Books Mentioned -

Arm of the Sphinx by Josiah Bancroft

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

The Girl Who Slept with God by Val Brelinski

The Sandman vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman

The Umbrella Academy vol. 1 by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba

Paper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang (Artist), Matthew Wilson (Artist)

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Get In Trouble by Kelly Link

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Rule by Rowenna Miller

A Royal Pain by Ellen Conford

The Séance by Joan Lowery Nixon

The Haunting at Cliff House by Karleen Bradford

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Jade City by Fonda Lee

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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Ep 134 - Like Living Inside of Goodreads and Donna Freitas! Jan 09, 2020

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Brea and Mallory talk about ways to organize and display your books, and interview author Donna Freitas! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Reading Glasses Facebook Group

Reading Glasses Goodreads Group

Amazon Wish List

BookRiot Reading Log

Donna Freitas -

Consent: A Memoir

Books Mentioned -

A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen

Wake, Siren by Nina MacLaughlin

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Ep 133 - Learning Things From Books and Courtenay Hameister! Jan 02, 2020

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Brea and Mallory discuss learning things from books and talk to author and humorist Courtenay Hameister! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Helenna Santos’ Movie - Shasta Triangle

Courtenay Hameister

Okay Fine Whatever

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Reading Glasses Facebook Group

Reading Glasses Goodreads Group

Amazon Wish List

Books Mentioned -

Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber

The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan

Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder

The Actor and the Target By Declan Donnellan

The Power of the Actor by Ivana Chubbuck

Death and Co. Cocktails

The Bar Book by Jeffrey Morgenthaler and Martha Holmberg

The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding by Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Craving Mind by Judson Brewer

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

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Ep 132 - Our Best Books of the Year! Dec 26, 2019

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Brea and Mallory talk about their favorite books of 2019! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Reading Glasses Facebook Group

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Books Mentioned -

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag

The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

Dig by A.S. King

Recursion by Blake Crouch

Amatka by Karin Tidbeck

The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Salvaged by Madeleine Roux

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle

Normal People by Sally Rooney

The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh

The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, Jon Klassen (Illustrator)

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Ep 131 - Not Enough Tub Reading - 2019 Reader Challenge and Tres Dean! Dec 19, 2019

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Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Reading Glasses Facebook Group

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For Your Consideration by Tres Dean

Books Mentioned -

The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

This Is Water by David Foster Wallace

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translated by)

Flowers of Mold & Other Stories by Seong-Nan Ha, Janet Hong (Translator)

Animus by Antoine Revoy

Destroyer by Victor LaValle, Dietrich Smith (Illustrator)

The Snakebite Survivors' Club by Jeremy Seal

Skeleton Keys by Brian Switek

Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West

The Return by Rachel Harrison

Slam Dunk, Vol. 1 by Takehiko Inoue

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano, Arturo Torres (Illustrator)

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

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Ep 130 - Murder Books with Wendy Heard Dec 12, 2019

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Brea and Mallory talk about murder books with author Wendy Heard! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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The Kill Club by Wendy Heard

Books Mentioned -

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison

Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan

Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry

All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban

Lady Killers by Tori Telfer

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen

Chew Volume 1 by John Layman, Rob Guillory (Artist)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Dare Me by Megan Abbott

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