Hello and welcome to episode 18 of the James Smith Podcast. I have added this

episode to season one, season two remains to be the podcast where I bring on

guests. I do apologise for the long delay in which it's been since doing a

podcast but I have been working on a very long six hour podcast known as my

book Not a Diet Book which is out in the 23rd of January. I've been preparing

that and it's taken me about six months so for any of you that feel like you're

itching or a little bit hungry for that podcast effect rest assured you have a

very big one coming that took me a little bit longer to prepare than the train

journey in which is how I do most of these. Now this morning I was having a

shower in Barclay and I had an idea I was like you know what I'm gonna get the

trains to London and I'm gonna record this podcast which is gonna be about

books. Ironically I know you're like James we get it your books coming out but

this isn't actually a podcast about my book it's about reading in general it's

about books that have influenced and positively affected my life to date so

yeah I was in the shower early I was like I've just got to talk about this and

there's something that I've been telling people people that have reading lists

and it's hard to offer someone perfect book advice because of the context of

it and on my story questions people go James what book would you recommend and

I'm often saying for what? A lot of questions I get asked across all platforms if

I can answer them with saying for what? It's not a well-structured question. Now

I've been fortunate enough throughout my life to be told what books to read by

my friends at different times and often when I need it do not let advice full on

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