People don't read as much as they used to. At least that's what people say. But is it true? And if they are reading less, why does it matter? Or does it matter? And the internet is bad for reading right? These questions in this episode.

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Park Row Books and Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen Anthony
Penguin Random House Audio

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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in the Digital Age by Maryanne Wolf
Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library by Wayne Wiegand
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How a gimmick to write more became one of the biggest literary events online.
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Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones

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National Novel Writing Month

The affirming, surprising, and most of all lasting legacy of The Baby-Sitters Club.

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The Ventriloquists by E.R. Ramzipoor
Circe by Madeline Miller

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Someday by David Levithan
Yumi Sakugawa
RWBY After the Fall by E.C. Myers
The Baby-Sitters Club Club Podcast
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The Baby-Sitters Club

What if the whole world spoke the same language? How would it work? Who would be interested in speaking it? In this episode, the dream, the reality, and the hope that is Esperanto.

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Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

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Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language by Esther Schor
Alex Miller's Esperanto YouTube Channel
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The Dream of a Universal Language

Sometimes people refer to a book they really liked as "life-changing." But what if you read a book, and it really did change your life in a big way? In this episode, stories of people reading books and making a big change.

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The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
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The Life-Changing Magic of Reading a Book

In this episode, the story of the interrupted literary career of Freido Lampe, and how his story reveals the underpinnings of the Nazi obsession with books and literature. 

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We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde

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At the Edge of the Night by Freido Lampe, translated by Simon Beattie
The Book Thieves by Anders Rydell
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