You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teach at loop.co.uk. UK. Hello everyone. This episode of the podcast is all about books and how

reading books can really improve your English. I'm going to give you some

recommendations for books that you can read and also tell you about some of my personal favorite books.

Now why is there this accordion music playing in the background?

This is not just because I live in Paris and there are always

accordion players in the street in front of my apartment. They play for the people

who sit in the cafes there. No, it's not because of that. In fact I was just

getting ready to record this episode of the podcast and I was listening to some bits of

music and this track came up on YouTube. This is actually the title theme from The Legend of

Zelda, the Okaerina of Time, one of the greatest computer games ever made. And I

just liked it. I just thought it's a nice piece of music and I thought it could be quite a fitting

introduction to this episode of the podcast which is nothing to do with computer games or

accordions or music in fact this one as you already know is all about reading books.

And I just thought to myself, well reading books is usually kind of a personal experience, is a warm experience, it can be quite a sort of mysterious

experience as well and just while I was thinking about those things this music was playing

and I suddenly felt very appropriate for this episode of the

podcast because for me this music is a bit like the way I feel when I'm reading a

really good book you know what I mean? It's this sort of

emotional experience and it's somehow quite wholesome. In fact this is often the

music, the kind of music that's just playing in my head somewhere when I first

open the pages of a brand new book that I've never read before.

And I start leafing through, you know that feeling of when you've got a new book and you can't wait to get stuck into it and it's, you know,

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