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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...

Ep 262 - Best Books of the Year So Far!

46 mins; June 30, 2022

Ep 261 - Not Beige - Book Apps You Need!

48 mins; June 23, 2022

Ep 260 - Books with a Tan Line - Preserving Your Books and eReaders

42 mins; June 16, 2022

Ep 259 - Your Main Book and Your Side Pieces - Reading Multiple Books At Once

38 mins; June 09, 2022

Ep 258 - The Best Way to Track Your Reading

44 mins; June 02, 2022

Ep 257 - How to Find Books Like Your Favorite Media with Tade Thompson

48 mins; May 26, 2022

Ep 256 - Cozy but also Spicy - Who Makes the Genre Rules? With Glory Edim

38 mins; May 19, 2022

Ep 255 - Book Rex for AAPI Heritage Month

34 mins; May 12, 2022

Ep 254 - Weird Reader Behavior - Is It Really That Weird?

41 mins; May 05, 2022

Ep 253 - Genre Curious? How To Try A Genre You’ve Never Read Before

38 mins; April 28, 2022

Ep 252 - Mighty Morphin’ Authors - Why Authors Use Pen Names

40 mins; April 21, 2022

Ep 252 - Mighty Morphin’ Authors - Why Authors Use Pen Names

36 mins; April 21, 2022

Ep 251 - Don’t Forget the Barbarians - Reading the First in a Series

40 mins; April 14, 2022

Ep 250 - No More New Buttholes - What To Do When You Hated A Book

38 mins; April 07, 2022

Ep 249 - What’s the Ideal Amount of Time to Read For?

33 mins; March 31, 2022

Ep 248 - Slow Readers and Fast Eaters

40 mins; March 24, 2022

Ep 247 - Do Visual Novels Count as Books?

42 mins; March 17, 2022

Ep 246 -Talking Bears and Long Roads - Finding Very Specific Books with Sara Gran!

39 mins; March 10, 2022

Ep 245 - Being a Reader is So Sexy - Reader/Non Reader Couples

45 mins; March 03, 2022

Ep 244 - Why Am I Reading This Book?!

37 mins; February 24, 2022

Ep 243 - Are You Shelfrighteous? Bookklempt? Specific Words for Reader Feelings

49 mins; February 17, 2022

Ep 242 - Queer Romances for Valentine’s Day!

38 mins; February 10, 2022

Ep 241 - To Sleep or Not to Sleep - Should You Stay Up All Night with a Book?

47 mins; February 03, 2022

Ep 240 - Don’t Bend The Space Rules - Unlikeable Characters and Mike Chen!

43 mins; January 27, 2022

Ep 239 - How To Tie Your Shoes and Other Self Help Books

42 mins; January 20, 2022

Ep 238 - What To Do With the Books You Got For Christmas

37 mins; January 13, 2022

Ep 237 - Reading Glasses Challenge 2022 and New Years Reader Resolutions

39 mins; January 06, 2022

Ep 236 - 2021 in Reading: Mom Books, Audiobooks and Virtual Events

55 mins; December 30, 2021

Ep 235 - Best Books of 2021!

56 mins; December 16, 2021

Ep 233 - Fonts, Margins and Deckled Edges, Oh My! Book Interiors with Lauren Panepinto

73 hours 22 mins; December 09, 2021

Ep 232 - Pulling Books Out of a Hat - What Makes a Good Book Event

38 mins; December 02, 2021

Ep 231 - Trust Elves But Not Willy Wonka - Magic Food Books

47 mins; November 25, 2021

Ep 230 - Robots, Werewolves and Weird Sh*t - Books for Native American Heritage Month

37 mins; November 18, 2021

Ep 229 - 2021 Holiday Bookish Gift Guide

49 mins; November 11, 2021

Ep 228 - Give Tuesday a Reason to Shine - Why Books Come Out on Tuesdays

39 mins; November 04, 2021

Ep 227 - Horny Werewolves and Candlesticks in Books - Halloween 2021 with Maggie Tokuda-Hall

55 mins; October 28, 2021

Ep 226 - Microhistories and Girly Drinks!

37 mins; October 21, 2021

Ep 225 - Magic Spells to Give You More Time to Read

41 mins; October 14, 2021

Ep 224 - Comfort Reads and Comfort Chairs

40 mins; October 07, 2021

Ep 223 - Banned Books Week

35 mins; September 30, 2021

Ep 222 - Improving Your Reading Habits with Anne Bogel

54 mins; September 23, 2021

Ep 221 - Send That Monster to the Grocery Store and Cadwell Turnbull!

55 mins; September 16, 2021

Ep 220 - Gotta Get Back to Kansas - Characters on a Journey and Cassandra Khaw

49 mins; September 09, 2021

Ep 219 - What Books Are Coming Out? Plus Spooky Season Kickoff with Becky Spratford

52 mins; September 02, 2021

Ep 218 - How to Call a Book on the Phone and Tom Merritt

45 mins; August 26, 2021

Ep 217 - Enemies, Lovers, Chosen Ones - All About Tropes

48 mins; August 19, 2021

Ep 216 - How To Become a Book Dragon - Getting Books for Cheap

40 mins; August 12, 2021

Ep 215 - How to Dump Books without Dumping Social Justice Goals

36 mins; August 05, 2021

Ep 214 - How To Review A Book You Hated

39 mins; July 29, 2021

Ep 213 - How To Read When You’re Stressed Out and Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn

53 mins; July 22, 2021

Ep 212 - Book Sniffing and Jordan Morris and Tony Cliff talking Bubble!

61 hours 32 mins; July 15, 2021

Ep 211 - What Makes a Swiss Army Recommendation and Helenna Santos

53 mins; July 08, 2021

Ep 210 - We Love Bookstores and Libraries

38 mins; July 01, 2021

Ep 209 - Hot Gossip and Small Town Books

46 mins; June 24, 2021

Ep 208 - When You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Books We Read As Kids

51 mins; June 17, 2021

Ep 207 - How To Get Rid of Books You Don’t Want

47 mins; June 10, 2021

Ep 206 - We Love Libraries! with T.L. Huchu

50 mins; June 03, 2021

Ep 205 - What To Do When A Book Lets You Down

39 mins; May 27, 2021

Ep 204 - Sarah Books

44 mins; May 20, 2021

Ep 203 - Hair Brushing, Enchanted Forests and Swamp Sounds - How to Find the Right Background Noise for Reading

50 mins; May 13, 2021

Ep 202 - How to Decide What to Read Next

71 hours 33 mins; May 06, 2021

Ep 201 - Eating A Good Book and Other Book Finishing Rituals and Silvia Moreno-Garcia!

51 mins; April 29, 2021

Dead Pilots Society - Space Bound Table Read

48 mins; April 28, 2021

Ep 200 - 200th Episode AMA Celebration!

52 mins; April 22, 2021

Ep 199 - Space Operas and Charlie Jane Anders!

51 mins; April 15, 2021

Ep 198 - Sh*ts, Giggles and Buying eBooks

43 mins; April 08, 2021

Ep 197 - If You Wanna Be My Bookmark, You Gotta Get In My Book

41 mins; April 01, 2021

Ep 196 - Getting Rex From the Library and Annabelle Gurwitch!

40 mins; March 25, 2021

Ep 195 - Alert! We Got An Unreliable Narrator Situation!

41 mins; March 18, 2021

Ep 194 - Reading Is… Reading and Annalee Newitz!

50 mins; March 11, 2021

Ep 193 - Why We Love Being Stressed Out By Thrillers

40 mins; March 04, 2021

Ep 192 - Poetry Cleared My Skin and Now I Can Do More Sit Ups

40 mins; February 25, 2021

Ep 191 - I’ll Just Read the Book! Review a Book by a BIPOC Author

40 mins; February 18, 2021

Ep 190 - Bookshelf Creeping

43 mins; February 11, 2021

Ep 189 - What Takes Us Out of Books and Author Sylvain Neuvel

50 mins; February 04, 2021

Ep 188 - What Do People Do in the Apocalypse? Hopeful Books and Mike Chen

53 mins; January 28, 2021

Ep 187 - Magical Bread and Florida - Reader Wheelhouses 2021

39 mins; January 21, 2021

Ep 186 - Hot from the Bible!

37 mins; January 14, 2021

Ep 185 - 2021 Reader Resolutions

48 mins; January 07, 2021

Ep 184 - A Ghost A Minute! A Thrill Ride! with Adam Sockel!

59 mins; December 24, 2020

Ep 183 - 2020 Reading Glasses Challenge and 2021 Announcement!

48 mins; December 17, 2020

Ep 182 - Best Books of 2020!!

62 hours 59 mins; December 10, 2020

Ep 181 - Remote Gift Giving, Book Freaks, and Chelsea Devantez!

50 mins; December 03, 2020

Ep 180 - Alligators, Chimpanzees and Family Books, Oh My!

47 mins; November 26, 2020

Ep 179 - A Big Thanks to Google Docs - How To Make A Book Podcast

50 mins; November 19, 2020

Ep 178 - Survived the Titanic? Get a Ghostwriter!

48 mins; November 12, 2020

Ep 177 - The Writing Advice Episode

56 mins; November 05, 2020

Ep 176 - Find A Book You Love and Let It Kill and Megan Rosenbloom

40 mins; October 29, 2020

Ep 175 - A Hot Mug of Bookmarks in the Morning

49 mins; October 22, 2020

Ep 174 - No Pants, No Parking - Virtual Book Events

34 mins; October 15, 2020

Ep 173 - Gimme Those Chunks! How to Get Through Required Reading

47 mins; October 08, 2020

Ep 172 - How Do You Make A Graphic Novel?

42 mins; October 01, 2020

Ep 171 - AnnoTEAted Bags

50 mins; September 24, 2020

Ep 170 - Pandemic Reading

40 mins; September 17, 2020

EP 169 - Friendships in Books with Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman!

47 mins; September 10, 2020

Ep 168 - Donating Books In Pandemic World

29 mins; September 03, 2020

Ep 167 - Exiled To The Drawer

44 mins; August 27, 2020

Bonus! Anticipated Books for the Rest of 2020

12 mins; August 25, 2020

Ep 166 - Converting Books to Pizza and other Book Nostalgia

48 mins; August 20, 2020

Ep 165 - Who Is Writing These Questions? Reader Guides

31 mins; August 13, 2020

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