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Reading Glasses

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...

Ep 357 - Angry Robots and Queerd Fiction - the Hottest Books for Summer!

41 mins; May 02, 2024

Ep 356 - Tips and Tricks for Managing Your Giant TBR

33 mins; April 25, 2024

Ep 355 - Manageable Chunk Style - Books with Short Chapters

39 mins; April 18, 2024

Ep 354 - Library Browsing Can Improve Your Reading Life

30 mins; April 11, 2024

Ep 353 - Check Yourself Before You Rex Yourself - Book Friend Dilemmas and Gay Cowboys!

36 mins; April 04, 2024

Ep 352 - Books to Get You Into EVERY Genre!

52 mins; March 28, 2024

BONUS TEASER - Reading Shows from the 80s and 90s

11 mins; March 25, 2024

Ep 351 - How To Read BETTER!

48 mins; March 21, 2024

Go Fact Yourself #MaxFunDrive Kick-off Spectacular featuring Danielle Radford, John-Luke Roberts, Brea Grant, and Mallory O'Meara

17 mins; March 18, 2024

Ep 350 - Books That Represent You As a Reader

42 mins; March 14, 2024

Ep 349 - Hot Genre Alert - Horromance! And Hot Tub Reading!

38 mins; March 07, 2024

Ep 348 - The Best Book Organization Systems

35 mins; February 29, 2024

Ep 347 - Perks and Tricks for eReaders!

43 mins; February 22, 2024

Ep 346 - Book Buying vs Book Reading, Plus Mike Chen!

50 mins; February 15, 2024

Ep 345 - The State of the Readers - Reading One Percenters

46 mins; February 08, 2024

Ep 344 - Varmints & Marmots - Books by Nonbinary Authors

47 mins; February 01, 2024

Ep 343 - How to Find More Books You’ll Like

42 mins; January 25, 2024

Ep 342 - Making Physical Books Better (Or Cuter)

35 mins; January 18, 2024

Ep 341 - Hot Genre Alert - Romantasy

36 mins; January 11, 2024

Ep 340 - Public Reader Number One - 2024 Reader Resolutions

36 mins; January 04, 2024

Ep 339 - 2023 Challenge Review Plus 2024’s Challenge Reveal!

40 mins; December 21, 2023

Ep 338 - Best Books of 2023!

58 mins; December 14, 2023

Ep 337 - 30 Minutes From Horny Town to Cozy Town - Reading Holiday Books

47 mins; December 07, 2023

Ep 336 - 2023 Holiday Bookish Gift Guide

42 mins; November 30, 2023

Ep 335 - 3 Out of 8 Bears: Reading a Book Over a Long Period of Time

38 mins; November 23, 2023

Ep 334 - Appeal Factors to Help You Find Better Books

45 mins; November 16, 2023

Ep 333 - Sci Fi Books for Your Dads and Husbands

40 mins; November 09, 2023

Ep 332 - Become Liam Neeson - Getting Borrowed Books Back

42 mins; November 02, 2023

Ep 331 - How to Get Into New Book Formats

40 mins; October 26, 2023

Ep 330 - Readers Who Read… Too Much!

39 mins; October 19, 2023

Ep 329 - Hearing the Tinkling of the Fairies - Making Yourself Love a Genre

39 mins; October 12, 2023

Ep 328 - Disabled Protagonists and Troublesome Dragons with Sharon Emmerichs!

59 mins; October 05, 2023

Ep 327 - Kill-dren and Stressed Out Parent Horror with Clay McLeod Chapman

64 hours 27 mins; September 28, 2023

Ep 326 - Don’t Light Your Book on Fire - Getting Stickers Off of Books

45 mins; September 21, 2023

Ep 325 - Haunted F*ckin Houses, Baby - Spooky Settings with Sarah Hollowell

58 mins; September 14, 2023

Ep 324 - Libraries Are So Cool - Attend a Library Event

35 mins; September 07, 2023

Ep 323 - Too Many Hobbies, Too Many Vitamins - How to Balance Your Reading Life

35 mins; August 31, 2023

Ep 322 - How to Get More From Audiobooks

43 mins; August 24, 2023

Ep 321 - How to Buy Books on Vacation

35 mins; August 17, 2023

Ep 320 - The Spoiler is Coming From Inside the Book!

36 mins; August 10, 2023

Ep 319 - The Favorite Book of Someone You Love & Do AI Book Recommenders Work?

39 mins; August 03, 2023

Ep 318 - Our Favorite Beach Reads!

38 mins; July 27, 2023

Ep 317 - Can Readers Be TOO Picky?

38 mins; July 20, 2023

Ep 316 - Guilt-Free Reading Time with Seanan McGuire

49 mins; July 13, 2023

Ep 315 - The Sounds of a Fairy Cottage - Reading Background Music and Liz Kerin

42 mins; July 06, 2023

Ep 314 - Best Books of the Year Halftime Show 2023

49 mins; June 29, 2023

Ep 313 - Bookish Civil Disobedience - Little Free Library Drama

49 mins; June 22, 2023

Ep 312 - Books for Grieving and Polyamorous Shelving

53 mins; June 15, 2023

Ep 311 - Getting More from a Book with Author Interviews

38 mins; June 08, 2023

Ep 310 - What to Do When a Book is… Just Okay

35 mins; June 01, 2023

Ep 309 - Movies as Books - Novelizations and Tre’vell Anderson

51 mins; May 25, 2023

Ep 308 - Books with a Side of Books: Why We Love Books about Books

45 mins; May 18, 2023

Ep 307 - Spring Flowers and Winter Swords - Seasonal Reads

36 mins; May 11, 2023

Ep 305 - Fan Fiction Counts as Real Books with Sarah Kuhn and Arielle Jovellanos

83 hours 28 mins; May 04, 2023

Ep 305 - Which Books to Bring on Vacation

46 mins; April 27, 2023

Ep 304 - How Giving a Book Another Chance Can Improve Your Reading Life

50 mins; April 20, 2023

Ep 303 - Are You a Mood Reader?

41 mins; April 13, 2023

Ep 302 - So Much Velvet - Dark Academia Reads

38 mins; April 06, 2023

Ep 301 - Best Books to Bust You Out of a Reading Slump

56 mins; March 30, 2023

Ep 300! - Best of Reading Glasses - 300 Episode Extravaganza

56 mins; March 23, 2023

Anticipated Books! (Teaser)

8 mins; March 20, 2023

Ep 299 - That’s Not Sprite: How Your Thoughts on a Book Can Change

44 mins; March 16, 2023

Ep 298 - How to Figure Out Your Doghouse

40 mins; March 09, 2023

Ep 297 - Jackets or Cloaks? What Exactly is Literary Fiction? and Danielle and the Silent Book Club!

55 mins; March 02, 2023

Ep 296 - Bookselves and Bookshelves with Rachel Koller Croft

43 mins; February 23, 2023

Ep 295 - Hornytown, USA: Tracking Your Book Settings and Cody Daigle-Orians

42 mins; February 16, 2023

Ep 294 - You Don’t Need a Tower - Worldbuilding with Annalee Newitz

52 mins; February 09, 2023

Ep 293 - How to Deal with Post Book Sadness

43 mins; February 02, 2023

Ep 292 - So Sexy - Why We Love Vampire Books with Mike Chen!

56 mins; January 26, 2023

Ep 291 - The Novella and the Book Thief

40 mins; January 19, 2023

Ep 290 - Captain of the Book Ship - Solving Your Book Club Problems

42 mins; January 12, 2023

Ep 289 - Busting an ExXxtreme Book Slump

34 mins; January 05, 2023

Ep 288 - 2022 In Reading + 2023 Challenge!

35 mins; December 29, 2022

Ep 287 - Best Books of 2022!

84 hours 20 mins; December 22, 2022

Ep 287 - Re-Upload! Best Books of the Year 2022!

84 hours 20 mins; December 22, 2022

Ep 287 - Best Books of the Year 2022

53 mins; December 22, 2022

Ep 286 - Snug as a Slug in a Rug - Cozy Reading Setups

52 mins; December 15, 2022

Ep 285 - Tempted by the Fruit of a Cover - Special Editions with Lauren Panepinto!

58 mins; December 08, 2022

Ep 284 - Reading Books and Watching Their Adaptations

41 mins; December 01, 2022

Ep 283 - Baby Got Backlist - Frontlist vs Backlist Books

48 mins; November 24, 2022

Ep 282 - Book Aesthetics - Jackets and Fancy Edges Galore

45 mins; November 17, 2022

Ep 281 - How To Figure Out Your Reading Doorway, and Travis Baldree!

43 mins; November 10, 2022

Ep 280 - Using Palate Cleanser Books To Refresh Your Brain

44 mins; November 03, 2022

Ep 279 - Halloween Sporror Special with Clay McLeod Chapman!

54 mins; October 27, 2022

Ep 278 - Soup, Bonfires, and Sweaters - Autumnal Books Galore with Lev Rosen!

58 mins; October 20, 2022

Ep 277 - Be A Book Reaper - How To Deal with Reading FOMO

63 hours 3 mins; October 13, 2022

Ep 276 - Get Out Your Wool Socks - Cozy Reads

52 mins; October 06, 2022

Ep 275 - No Pamphlets! The Best Way to Mail Books

50 mins; September 29, 2022

Ep 274 - Ask Someone What They’re Reading

36 mins; September 22, 2022

Ep 273 - Bookstores - When You’re Here You’re Family

54 mins; September 15, 2022

Ep 272 - Dick Lit and Gendered Books with Constance Wu

66 hours 4 mins; September 08, 2022

Ep 271 - Flat Bottomed Bags Make the Bookish World Go Round

63 hours 18 mins; September 01, 2022

Ep 270 - How To Retain More of What You Read

39 mins; August 25, 2022

Ep 269 - Read Like You’ve Never Been Hurt Before - Unfinished Series

39 mins; August 18, 2022

Ep 268 - Don’t Have a Baby With This Book - Changing Reading Tastes

36 mins; August 11, 2022

Ep 267 - Don’t Get a Sunburn on Your Book - Tips for Outside Reading

50 mins; August 04, 2022

Ep 266 - The Best and Worst Reading Positions

37 mins; July 28, 2022

Ep 265 - Like Cover Songs but Books - Why People Love Retellings

43 mins; July 21, 2022

Ep 264 - How To Get in the Mood to Read

38 mins; July 14, 2022

Ep 263 - Extreme Cottagecore - Amish Romances

47 mins; July 07, 2022

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