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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 66 - Write Your Own Book Rhyme and Ways to Mark Your Books

37 mins; September 13, 2018

Ep 65 - Reading as Self-Care with Anne Bogel!

37 mins; September 06, 2018

Ep 64 - What's a Video Game and How Do I Read It? with Travis McElroy!

42 mins; August 30, 2018

Ep 63 - Tweets That You Ask For and Anne T. Donahue

45 mins; August 23, 2018

Ep 62 - No Trivia Books in the Bathroom and Andy McElfresh!

37 mins; August 16, 2018

Ep 61 - Library Stew with Brazos Price

36 mins; August 09, 2018

Ep 60 - F*&k That Whale and Other Public Domain Books

32 mins; August 02, 2018

Pop Up Video for Books and Anthony Oliveira!

37 mins; July 26, 2018

Ep 58 - Reading Sword and Glasses Laser - Crossover Episode!

65 hours 21 mins; July 19, 2018

Ep 57 - Books That Changed Your Life and Guy Branum!

44 mins; July 12, 2018

Ep 56 - So Many Crimes and Billy Jensen!

47 mins; July 05, 2018

Ep 55 - Should You be Afraid of the Bermuda Triangle and Oh No Ross and Carrie!’s Ross Blocher!

48 mins; June 28, 2018

Ep 54 - Reading is Dangerous and Other Health Tips

30 mins; June 21, 2018

Ep 53 - Too Much Dog Death, Book Reviews and Alex Brown!

43 mins; June 14, 2018

Ep 52 - Two Werewolves F*%king and Other Self Published Books and Leslye Penelope!

39 mins; June 07, 2018

Ep 51 - Making Book Friends, Book Priests and author Bethany C Morrow!

49 mins; May 31, 2018

Ep 50 - Pod-i-versary Ep - We Answer Questions!

35 mins; May 24, 2018

Ep 49 - Punching Submarines and author Brian McClellan

44 mins; May 17, 2018

Ep 48 - Books to Make You Sh*t Yourself and Norton publicist Will Scarlett!

41 mins; May 10, 2018

Ep 47 - When Two Books Love Each Other and editor Navah Wolfe!

41 mins; May 03, 2018

Ep 46 - Put it on a Clock, Book Notes and Brazos talks about VR!

29 mins; April 26, 2018

Ep 45 - Readers Doing Good with Patrick Rothfuss

38 mins; April 19, 2018

Ep 44 - Fuck Boys, Get Horses with Erin Whitehead

43 mins; April 12, 2018

Ep 43 - Bookish Internet, Panda Aunts and Jonny Sun!

43 mins; April 05, 2018

Ep 42 - Don’t Be A Moby Dick in Your Online Book Club and comicbookgirl19!

38 mins; March 29, 2018

Ep 41 - Radical Book Acceptance and Interview with Amanda Palmer!

47 mins; March 22, 2018

Ep 40 - Reading with Kids, Horse Books and One Bad Mother’s Theresa Thorn

42 mins; March 15, 2018

Ep 39 - Break Up with Bad Books and Lore’s Aaron Mahnke

37 mins; March 08, 2018

Ep 38 - Fitbits for Books and Other Book Apps plus Karen Keninger from the National Library Service!

44 mins; March 01, 2018

Ep 37 - Drop that Book Guilt and a Review of a Plastic Bag!

41 mins; February 22, 2018

Ep 36 - Small Presses, Microcosm Publishing and Big Relationship Advice

44 mins; February 15, 2018

Ep 35 - Classics are Goth, Leni Zumas and Advice to Get Rid of that Stinky Book!

36 mins; February 08, 2018

Ep 34 - Get More Pages In and John Hodgman!

40 mins; February 01, 2018

Ep 33 - If You Wanna be My Lover, You Gotta Get with My Library and Overdrive’s Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald!

40 mins; January 25, 2018

Ep 32 - Audiobooks, Bed Hamburgers and Wil Wheaton!

36 mins; January 18, 2018

Ep 31 - Short Stories are Like a Box of Chocolates and Interview with author Amal El-Mohtar!

38 mins; January 11, 2018

Ep 30 - Adding more Ampersands to Your Life and New Year’s Resolutions You MIGHT ACTUALLY KEEP

25 mins; January 04, 2018

Ep 29 - Born with Glasses and Memoirs with Anna Akana

30 mins; December 21, 2017

Ep 28 What to Give the Book Person who has Everything and Ask a Librarian with Brazos Price!

27 mins; December 13, 2017

Ep 27 Indie Bookstores: Great Place For A Date (Unless You're Mallory) and Steven Salardino of Skylight Books!

35 mins; December 06, 2017

Ep 26 - Sexy, Naked Books and Book Cover Discussion! and Creative Director Lauren Panepinto

37 mins; November 30, 2017

Ep 25 - Do Bestseller Lists Matter?

32 mins; November 22, 2017

Ep 24 - How to Always Have Snacks and Other Self-Help Books and Brook Sitgraves Turner talks Adulting!

33 mins; November 16, 2017

Ep 23 - There's a Pencil Stuck in My Nose and Other Middle Grade Issues and a Colin Meloy Interview!

30 mins; November 08, 2017

Ep 22 - Should You Throw Away Your Books by Garbage People? and Jessa Crispin Interview!

35 mins; November 02, 2017

Ep 21- Small Talk at Parties or Werewolves: A Guide to Scary Halloween Books and Paul Tremblay

35 mins; October 26, 2017

Ep 20 - Comic Sans on Your Tombstone and Amber Benson!

38 mins; October 19, 2017

Ep. 19 - The Dragon and Murderer Book Club and Also Other Book Club Advice

35 mins; October 12, 2017

Ep 18 - Nonfiction: Not Just for Dads! and Caitlin Doughty Interview!

34 mins; October 05, 2017

Ep 17 - Crowbar the Movie out of Your Brain: Movie Adaptations and Author Shrabani Basu

33 mins; September 28, 2017

Ep 16 - A Large Latte and a Translated Book Please plus Translator Didi Chanoch!

29 mins; September 21, 2017

Ep 15 - Book Etiquette Tips or Maybe Just Put People in the Trash and Gail Carriger!

37 mins; September 14, 2017

Ep. 14 - Book Shame and How to Deal with It plus Confessions from Daniel H. Wilson

35 mins; September 07, 2017

Ep. 13 - Don't Drink a Mud Puddle and Other Bibliotherapy! Plus Disability Advocate Heather Ratcliff

33 mins; August 31, 2017

Ep 12 - Books: Not Just for Rich People Anymore! and Tor.com's Mordicai Knode

34 mins; August 24, 2017

Ep 11 - You're Gonna Die with a TBR List! (And How to Accept that) and Writer/Disability Activist Elsa Sjunneson-Henry

34 mins; August 17, 2017

Ep 10 - Get a Dead Finger - Put Your Book Love on Display and Sarah Kuhn

36 mins; August 10, 2017

Ep 9 Who Did the Murdering in this Book & Beach Reads Reclaimed! Plus Banned Books with Tonia Thompson

37 mins; August 03, 2017

Ep 8 - Authors: They're Just Like Us! They Even Use Pinterest! Plus interview with Mur Lafferty

32 mins; July 27, 2017

Ep 7 - Mallory is Obsessed with Iceland and Interview with Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

34 mins; July 20, 2017

Ep. 6 - Wipe Your Hands and Other Book Event Advice with IDW's Chris Ryall

36 mins; July 13, 2017

Ep 5 - Jesus Holds Your E-Books and Other Travel Tips with Tom Merritt

35 mins; July 06, 2017

Should You Give a S*^t about Book Awards? and Cecil Castellucci

34 mins; June 29, 2017

Ep 3 - Readers in a Non-Reader World

33 mins; June 22, 2017

Episode 2 - Navigating New Releases/Nick White

35 mins; June 15, 2017

Episode 1 - Book Slumps with Sara Benincasa

32 mins; June 07, 2017

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