Hey there, Glassers. We are so thrilled to be dropping this bonus episode into your feed.

And sure, it's not the whole thing, but it's part of it. And it gives you a little taste of what it is like to be a member of maximum fun.

It's the drive this week. We are very excited to be doing all sorts of fun stuff for you. And we talk about it a little bit in the show.

But mostly, this is just a bonus episode where Mallory and I go through our old journals,

our old book journals, which Mallory swore she would never do.

So we're excited to share a little bit of this with you.

And if you want to hear more of it, go to maximum fun.org slash join to get the full thing.

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I'm author and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Breit Graham, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, it's our bonus episode for the 26 maximum fun drive. We've passed through the portal. We're in the midst of the drive. We're in the zone. We're in the max fun drive danger zone. I don't know. Except it's a book podcast. It's really not that dangerous. No, it's actually like the corners are all like covered in like a nice foam and like we're soft. And the plugs have been, you know, there's nothing. Yeah, we're all, we're very safe here. But we're doing something that we, or Mallory at least, swore we would never do. We're going to take out our old book journals and go through them on the show. Pretty wild. Mallory actually has told me that if something ever happens to her, I'm to go to her house and throw her computer into the ocean and burn all her book journals. Yeah, I want you to burn these. This is good we're doing this episode so you can see what they look like. Okay. I got them. There's so many here. I only have this one that I could find. but wow, there's so many. How do you want to begin this?

Well, first off, we want to thank the listener. You, right now, you. Thank you for being a Max Fund member. It really means the world to us that you're here. We really appreciate you. You're the reason why we're able to do this show. And if you want to send us emails about book journals, you can send them to Reading Glasses Podcast at gmail.com. You want a list of all the books on the show that we talk about, delivered to your inbox every month. You can sign it for our newsletter. There's a link in the show notes. All right, Briya. So when was the first time you started tracking your reading? When did we start doing this podcast? 2017. I think 2017 is when I started.

Wow.

So we were, we would, because in that time it was like, oh, no, that's not true. I had good reads before that. And then I quit doing good reads for many years. And then we started doing this podcast and I was like, ooh, I got to remember what I'm reading. And so I started tracking it then. And I cannot find the, I can't find the journal from them.

I know it's like a small blue one and I don't know where it went. I may have thrown it away. I don't know. I do, I throw shit out. So I guess maybe at some point I decided I didn't need it anymore. When did you start? I found my first one, 2015. Okay, cool. Yeah, I used good reads before then kind of sporadically, but I don't think I really started concentrating.

I don't think I made a concentrated effort to track everything I read until 2015.

I have the journal here.

It is the Reading Woman Engagement Calendar.

Oh, I love it.

From 2015.

I should say my Goodreads goes back to 2008.

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