Ep 432 – Hot Tips for Focusing on Reading + Adam Sockel!

Episode 432

9th October 2025

How can you focus better on reading?

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Brea and Mallory give out tips on improving your reading focus! Plus, they test out the new app Focus Friend, and interview long time friend of the show Adam Sockel about his new book. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Books Mentioned –

The Brain at Rest by Dr. Joseph Jebelli

The Salvage by Anbara Salam

Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi

The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

My Friends by Fredrik Bachman

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen

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  • Adam Sockel

About the show

Do you love books? Want to learn how to make the most of your reading life? Join hosts Brea Grant and Mallory O’Meara every week as they discuss tips and tricks for reading better on Reading Glasses, a podcast designed to help you get more out of your literary experiences.

As professional creatives and mega-readers, Mallory and Brea are experts on integrating a love of reading into a busy lifestyle. Listeners will get help for bookish problems, like how to vanquish that To-Be-Read pile and organize those bookshelves. Brea and Mallory also offer advice on reader dilemmas. 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 to read? No matter what you read or how you read it, Reading Glasses will help you do it better.

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