Ep 463 - Most Anticipated Books for May + June!
Reading Glasses
Maximum Fun
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm author and book devour, Mallory O'Mara. |
| 0:13.8 | And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader. |
| 0:16.1 | Hey, it's back. |
| 0:17.8 | It's the anticipated books for May and June. We know what month it is right now. It's the anticipated books for May and June. |
| 0:21.4 | We know what month it is right now. |
| 0:22.7 | It is the anticipated. |
| 0:24.3 | It's the anticipated episode. |
| 0:25.8 | During the fun drive, this was one of our goals. |
| 0:28.2 | We were like, okay, we're only going to bring it back if we get 300 new people to join. |
| 0:33.6 | And we got that. |
| 0:34.4 | And we really appreciate all you who joined and help you make this episode possible. We are so excited to talk about the books that we are looking forward to for May and June. But first, Breanne, what are you reading? I'm checking off the reading glasses challenge of a book in a, what is it, a book in a category that you wouldn't normally read, a genre. Are you going to talk about Odd Man In? |
| 1:01.3 | I'm going to talk about Odd Man In Hockey's emergency goalies and the wildest one-day job in sports by Stephen Wino. |
| 1:06.7 | Okay, I just want to say, we have a mutual friend who is into hockey. |
| 1:07.0 | I know. |
| 1:12.1 | I love hanging out with Anthony because he's like, Brea's been telling me hockey things that I didn't know. |
| 1:27.2 | Brea doesn't watch hockey. Okay, I told him. I told him about this whole thing. I feel very, I don't care anything. I will never learn anything else about hockey. But this was, when we were talking about on the show, I was like, what's a sports book? And you recommended a few. and this one felt to me like one that I could actually read because it's about basically there's hockey teams |
| 1:30.2 | you're going to be able to explain this better |
| 1:31.3 | than me but I'm going to try wait no I want you to do this this is great hockey teams have to have an |
| 1:36.8 | emergency backup goalie because there's been times where like these goalies get fucking plowed in the |
| 1:43.0 | head by a puck too many times they |
| 1:45.1 | can't play and then they're like what do we do so they have to have a backup goalie and there's |
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