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Speaker 1: Folks at the Boston Public Library are creating their reading

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Speaker 1: logs for the annual BPL Winter Reading Challenge. Veronica Covid

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Speaker 1: Madison is the BPL's Reader Service as supervisor, and she

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Speaker 1: says the challenge sees people read books from different continents

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Speaker 1: and regions around the world.

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Speaker 2: We really hope that by trying authors from different regions,

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Speaker 2: we really open our eyes to new perspectives, like global perspectives,

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Speaker 2: and maybe find something that we didn't know before.

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Speaker 1: Each branch has a map that they'll fill out with

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Speaker 1: where the books people read are from. Folks taking part

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Speaker 1: also get a collector's pin. THEO is here with their

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Speaker 1: tote bag. They gone from the Summer Reading Challenge and

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Speaker 1: they can't wait to do the Winter one. As someone

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Speaker 1: who always tells themselves they're going to read more in

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Speaker 1: the new year and then fails, I asked THEO for

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Speaker 1: some advice on how to keep it up. THEO says,

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Speaker 1: to not push yourself too hard.

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Speaker 3: I do think that like graphic novels or novellas or

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Speaker 3: shorter things that you can pick up really easily, or

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Speaker 3: maybe like finding a genre that you used to love

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Speaker 3: and would like to come back to. Finding a way

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Speaker 3: to pace.

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Speaker 1: Yourself with it From Copley Square. Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio