WEBVTT - Reading is reading

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is that if you are absorbing words with the

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<v Speaker 1>goal of understanding what they mean, you are reading. No

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<v Speaker 1>need to go high brow if that is not what

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<v Speaker 1>you are into right now. Reading is reading, so let

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<v Speaker 1>go of the arbitrary rules and you can enjoy your

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<v Speaker 1>leisure time a lot more. If you have school aged kids,

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<v Speaker 1>their teachers or librarians may set guidelines for what kinds

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<v Speaker 1>of books count toward their reading requirements. Maybe the books

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<v Speaker 1>have to match the student's reading level or meet a

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<v Speaker 1>certain threshold for length. Those guidelines might make sense to

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<v Speaker 1>ensure that new readers challenge themselves and see the breadth

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<v Speaker 1>of what is out there. But you most likely are

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<v Speaker 1>not in school anymore. You don't need to set rules

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<v Speaker 1>about what counts as reading, so feel free to read

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<v Speaker 1>whatever you feel like and enjoy it. Just keep repeating

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<v Speaker 1>this phrase, reading is reading. I find this is an

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<v Speaker 1>especially useful phrase if you find yourself in something of

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<v Speaker 1>a reading slump. This phrase gives you permission to lighten up.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't have to read Tolstoy or James Joyce or

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<v Speaker 1>Tony Morrison. Do you like reading interior design magazines awesome?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you enjoy the stories in People or US Weekly?

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<v Speaker 1>Read on You will certainly get some insights into human nature,

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<v Speaker 1>some of which I'm guessing Tolstoimi would have appreciated. Do

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<v Speaker 1>you need a good laugh, Maybe David Sadaras or Tina

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<v Speaker 1>Fey or a joke book would hit the spot. You

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<v Speaker 1>do not need to be sitting on a beach to

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<v Speaker 1>read something beachy, and books written for children are absolutely

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<v Speaker 1>still books. There was a stretch of time when most

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<v Speaker 1>of the chapter books I was reading were magic treehouse

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<v Speaker 1>books because that is what my kids were into. I

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<v Speaker 1>still learned about some interesting times and places, and I

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<v Speaker 1>enjoyed this description. I came across somewhere in there that

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<v Speaker 1>the air smelled freshly washed. I parked that one away

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<v Speaker 1>to borrow at sometime. Young adult literature can also be

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of fun. There is nothing like a fantasy

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<v Speaker 1>novel that is over in less than two hundred pages

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<v Speaker 1>to give you a manageable escape from life. Ask the

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<v Speaker 1>kids in your life for recommendations, or feel free to

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<v Speaker 1>reread what you read in middle school. My bet is

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<v Speaker 1>that at least half the people reading Judy Bloom right

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<v Speaker 1>now have a little gray hair. I love reading great literature,

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<v Speaker 1>and I am proud to say that I have read

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of it. But if I only allowed myself

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<v Speaker 1>to read works by Nobel Prize winners or writers who

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<v Speaker 1>have made it into a Norton anthology, I would probably

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<v Speaker 1>spend a lot more time scrolling around on Instagram. So

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<v Speaker 1>when I go to the library, I let myself grab

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<v Speaker 1>things like books on gardening and books on Southern interior

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<v Speaker 1>home design or whatever. Then I read the captions on

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<v Speaker 1>the pretty pictures and know that I am absolutely still reading.

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<v Speaker 1>If you are in graduate school, then yes, you need

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<v Speaker 1>to read certain things to learn certain things. But if

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<v Speaker 1>you are reading for enjoyment, which the vast majority of

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<v Speaker 1>us are, then whatever you enjoy works reading is reading.

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't have to be more complicated than that. In

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<v Speaker 1>the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's

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