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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 164 - How Does A Bird Work?

50 mins; August 06, 2020

Ep 163 - Authors: They Like to Eat

51 mins; July 30, 2020

Ep 162 - Two First Names - Dad Books with Noah Segan

55 mins; July 23, 2020

Ep 161 - Book Criminals with Rider Strong

60 hours 54 mins; July 16, 2020

Ep 160 - Aliens, Animals, Amoebas and Other Nonhuman Protagonists

43 mins; July 09, 2020

Ep 159 - Downsizing? Divorcing? Death? Gimme Those Books!

41 mins; July 02, 2020

Ep 158 - Harry Potter Readalikes That Aren’t Written By Trash Babies

39 mins; June 25, 2020

Ep 157 - Read More Black Authors!

46 mins; June 18, 2020

Ep 156 - How To Read Diversely Without Feeling Creepy

42 mins; June 11, 2020

Ep 155 - So Horny! Romance Book Challenge with L.C. Rosen

51 mins; June 04, 2020

Ep 154 - Don't Get Crumbs in Your Book Butt (aka THE SNACK EPISODE)!

42 mins; May 28, 2020

Ep 153 - How To Focus on Reading During Quarantine

38 mins; May 21, 2020

Ep 152 - Read A Book By A Woman of Color

33 mins; May 14, 2020

Ep 151 - Your Book Doghouse

37 mins; May 07, 2020

Ep 150 - I Am A 3D Puzzle and Ways To Help Bookstores

36 mins; April 30, 2020

Ep 149 - Recommending Books on Social Media and Hoarding Cookies

36 mins; April 23, 2020

Ep 148 - If You Love A Book, Let It Go

36 mins; April 16, 2020

Ep 147 - An Ice Bath, 72 Eggs and Speed Reading

44 mins; April 09, 2020

Ep 146 - Teddy Ruxpin Was The Original Audiobook

33 mins; April 02, 2020

Ep 145 - Share Your Fruit in the Apocalypse

42 mins; March 26, 2020

Ep 144 - Hunker with A Honker: Reading in Isolation

51 mins; March 19, 2020

Ep 143 - Just Being Weird - Specific Book Recommendations

33 mins; March 12, 2020

Ep 142 - Dump That Book!

33 mins; March 05, 2020

Ep 141 - Ask Your Horse Friends About New Releases

34 mins; February 27, 2020

Ep 140 - We Heard You Like Book Podcasts and Overdue!

49 mins; February 20, 2020

Ep 139 - What To Do When an Author Says Something Shitty

46 mins; February 13, 2020

Ep 138 - Reading Books Set In Another Country

36 mins; February 06, 2020

Ep 137 - Being Part of the Book Community and Riley Black!

35 mins; January 30, 2020

Ep 136 - This Motherf**ker Was Picked By Oprah!

43 mins; January 23, 2020

Ep 135 - Re-Reading Books and Mike Chen!

43 mins; January 16, 2020

Ep 134 - Like Living Inside of Goodreads and Donna Freitas!

40 mins; January 09, 2020

Ep 133 - Learning Things From Books and Courtenay Hameister!

44 mins; January 02, 2020

Ep 132 - Our Best Books of the Year!

46 mins; December 26, 2019

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

50 mins; December 19, 2019

Ep 130 - Murder Books with Wendy Heard

53 mins; December 12, 2019

Ep 129 - What Gets You To Pick Up A Book and Lindsey Dunn!

45 mins; December 05, 2019

Ep 128 - Power Moves and Trigger Warnings with Isa Mazzei!

46 mins; November 28, 2019

Ep 127 - Everyone’s Just Doing Their Best and Zoraida Cordova and Dhonielle Clayton!

54 mins; November 21, 2019

Ep 126 - Yelp for Books with Sarah Enni!

52 mins; November 14, 2019

Ep 125 - Just Fucking Write - NaNoWriMo with Tom Merritt

43 mins; November 07, 2019

Ep 124 - Be A Secret Witch with Ben Blacker!

52 mins; October 31, 2019

Ep 123 - Scary Books for Halloween and Clay McLeod Chapman!

50 mins; October 24, 2019

Ep 122 - Space: The Ultimate Escape and Madeleine Roux

47 mins; October 17, 2019

Ep 121 - Punks, Goths and Russian Composers - Music Scene Books and Elizabeth Keenan!

40 mins; October 10, 2019

Ep 120 - Mr. Dewey Is A Trash Baby and Library Systems with Adam Sockel

44 mins; October 03, 2019

Ep 119 - Extremely Beige - The Goodreads Rundown

45 mins; September 26, 2019

Ep 118 - Co-Written Books with Maika & Maritza Moulite!

41 mins; September 19, 2019

Ep 117 - Reading Series Is Like Dating and JY Yang!

48 mins; September 12, 2019

Ep 116 - Books on the Immigrant Experience and Tope Folarin!

46 mins; September 05, 2019

Ep 115 - Books That Make You Feel Old and Other Historical Fiction with E.R. Ramzipoor!

52 mins; August 29, 2019

Ep 114 - A Lovely Bread Dream and Other Happy Books and Gabrielle Civil!

44 mins; August 22, 2019

Ep 113 - Who’s Making These Books?

33 mins; August 15, 2019

Ep 112 -How to Boil Water and Other Cookbooks and Sam Slaughter!

48 mins; August 08, 2019

Ep 111 - Dusty, Sweaty Westerns and Del Howison!

28 mins; August 01, 2019

Ep 110 - The Benefits of the Snargle-Flargen - Your Brain on Books

31 mins; July 25, 2019

Ep 109 - When a Book is On a Bagel You Can Buy It Anytime and Matilda Sabal from the Bluestockings NYC Bookstore!

42 mins; July 18, 2019

Ep 108 - Prison Libraries and How to Help Them and Jill Grunenwald

37 mins; July 11, 2019

Ep 107 - Test Out God and Other Nonfiction with Ross Blocher and Carrie Poppy

50 mins; July 04, 2019

Ep 106 - Pride Reading Recommendations 2019

28 mins; June 26, 2019

Ep 105 - Authors are Like Spiders with Sarah Kuhn!

48 mins; June 20, 2019

Ep 104 - Empty Planets, Trains and Swamps and Deb Spera!

42 mins; June 13, 2019

Ep 103 - Cups and Balls and Magic with Sarah Gailey

48 mins; June 06, 2019

Ep 102 - How To Talk About Books and Stoya!

37 mins; May 30, 2019

Ep 101 - Animal, Vegetable or Jesus? And Other Nature Books and Meredith May!

37 mins; May 23, 2019

Ep 100 - Reader Challenge Check In - Our 100th Episode!

39 mins; May 16, 2019

Ep 99 - Mysteries But In A Hurry and Tom Ryan!

40 mins; May 09, 2019

Ep 98 - French Flaps and Fancy Books and Alex Brown!

28 mins; May 02, 2019

Ep 97 - Becoming A Tree Child and Adventure Books and Christopher Golden!

32 mins; April 25, 2019

Ep 96 - Cult Watch 2019 and Erica Boyce!

35 mins; April 18, 2019

Ep 95 - Come Hither and Read with Kameron Hurley!

37 mins; April 11, 2019

Ep 94 - Wet Grocery Flyers and How to Relax with Books with Lynn Chen!

50 mins; April 04, 2019

Ep 93 - Sci Fi vs. The Bible with Henry Zebrowski

50 mins; March 28, 2019

Ep 92 - Harry Potter and All The Magical Animals with Podcaster Vanessa Zoltan!

48 mins; March 21, 2019

Ep 92 - Sexy Book Lists and Other Book Quirks with Mike Chen!

37 mins; March 14, 2019

Ep 91 - Pre Orders Are Like Book Sex and Lit Agent DongWon Song!

40 mins; March 07, 2019

Ep 90 - Open Your Mouth and Pages Come Out : How to Make a Book

34 mins; February 28, 2019

Ep 89 - If That Book Comes A-Honkin’: Long Books and Jenn Lyons!

31 mins; February 21, 2019

Ep 88 - Secret Babies and the Hosts of the Read Me Romance Podcast!

37 mins; February 14, 2019

BONUS EPISODE - AMA for Reading Glasses

32 mins; February 11, 2019

Ep 87 - YA or GTFO and lit agent Eric Smith!

37 mins; February 07, 2019

Ep 86 - So Many Books! Tracking Your Reading and M. Lynx Qualey!

43 mins; January 31, 2019

Ep 85 - Seize the Book and Little Free Libraries

34 mins; January 24, 2019

Ep 84 - Our Fav Trans Authors and Author Holly Malholm!

38 mins; January 17, 2019

Ep 83 - Tomatoes, Movies and Craft Books with Don Coscarelli

48 mins; January 10, 2019

Ep 82 - Books To Get Your Sh*t Together with Gaby Dunn!

47 mins; January 03, 2019

Ep 81 - Our 2019 Challenge and Sam Maggs!

42 mins; December 27, 2018

Ep 80 - Cats With Knives and Our Fav Books of 2018!

39 mins; December 20, 2018

Ep 79 - Mr. Billy Bookshelf and Other Great Bookish Gifts and bookseller Amber Brown!

47 mins; December 13, 2018

Ep 78 - Book Recommendation Flow Chart with Nnekay Fitzclarke

49 mins; December 06, 2018

Ep 77 - Books Are Like Sandwiches and publisher Chad W Post!

42 mins; November 29, 2018

Ep 76 - Everyone's in the Loo and Claire Handscombe!

41 mins; November 22, 2018

Ep 75 - Don’t Put Mayonnaise On Your Books and Janelle Milanes!

37 mins; November 15, 2018

Ep 74 - Book Detectives for Satan

30 mins; November 08, 2018

Ep 73 - Literary Re-Tellings with L.L. McKinney

41 mins; November 01, 2018

Ep 72 - Scary Halloween Comics with Ben Blacker

49 mins; October 25, 2018

Ep 71 - Books for Halloweenies and Madeleine Roux!

45 mins; October 18, 2018

Ep 70 - Try the Hummus and Short Audio Fiction with Alasdair Stuart

43 mins; October 11, 2018

Ep 69 - Hot, Fresh Opinions and Delilah Dawson!

49 mins; October 04, 2018

Ep 68 - Sci Fi is My Religion and Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders!

45 mins; September 27, 2018

Ep 67 - Make Your Own Book Score and Grady Hendrix

42 mins; September 20, 2018

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