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Before Breakfast

Commit to a 2020 must-read

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Make this the year to cross one classic off your list

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the unimaginable. Season 2 of the Unimaginable hones in on individuals who have led unimaginable

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lives by following their instinct from guests like TycoYTT. Stick to your vision of what you're

0:14.5

trying to do. It's just more pure. The failure is more pure and the success is more pure.

0:18.7

This season delivers behind-the-scenes conversations about the many roads to success.

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Listen to the Unimaginable on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your

0:29.0

podcast. Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.

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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Today's tip is to commit to a must-read for 2022.

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I am sure many people listening to this have a long list of books you would like to read at

0:58.5

some time. So why not choose one of those books and make 2022 the time.

1:07.9

As long time before breakfast listeners know, I have spent the past year reading

1:12.8

slowly through war and peace. I read Leo Tolstoy's epic for the first time in 2017 and really enjoyed

1:20.9

it, but I also read it quite quickly, probably to get through it. I decided I wanted to reread

1:28.4

this book so I could understand its complex characters and the way Tolstoy weaves together

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philosophy and history and narrative action. If generations of book lovers have identified

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war and peace as one of the best novels ever written, then I wanted to make sure I really enjoyed it.

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There are probably classics that you keep meaning to read. Maybe you read them once in school,

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but you think you missed some of the nuances. Or maybe you just keep hearing how profound these

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books are and you want to experience that yourself. Moby Dick, Ulysses, Beloved, Middle March,

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the Brothers Caramaza. The list is long of classics we just can't miss and yet we inevitably

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have missed some of them. Or maybe you want to read the Bible or another sacred text all the way

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through. There are lots of online study plans that provide a road map for reading through the whole

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