This is an all ears English podcast, episode 2604. Is your nose in a book? What to say to big readers.

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Are you a big reader? What can you say when someone around you is immersed in a book and won't look up? Find out exactly what to say in English today.

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Hello, Michelle. How's it going today?

Going well, going well. How are you? Good, doing good. Michelle, what are you reading right now? Are you reading any novels or

nonfiction books or anything? Yeah. I am reading this book called House on, I hope I'm getting the title correct.

The House on the Surulian Sea. Oh. Interesting. And it's, it's, I, you know, what's really funny.

I think we've talked about like, you know,

don't judge both by its cover.

Yes.

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