Ep 10: You can be a Serious Reader and still love Matt Damon

What Should I Read Next?

Anne Bogel

Leisure, Arts, Books

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Anne chats with Janssen Bradshaw, creator of the blog Everyday Reading, former children's librarian, and modern mother who's raising her three kids to be readers. In this episode Anne and Janssen talk about how Janssen reads books like other people watch television, why Janssen's in danger of having her "real reader" badge taken away, and books with strong narrative drive and excellent plotting. They discuss happy books, books that require three boxes of Kleenex, and everything in between. Click over to the podcast website for the full list of titles discussed in this episode, and leave us a comment to let us know what YOU think Janssen should read next! Connect with Janssen: Blog | Instagram | Twitter Connect with Anne: Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | WSIRN Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Ann Bogall and this is What Should I Read Next Episode 10.
0:15.7	Welcome to the show that's dedicated to answering the question that plagues every reader.
0:19.6	What should I read next? We don't get bossy on this show. What we will do here is give you the
0:25.2	information you need to choose your next read. Every week we'll talk all things books and
0:29.6	reading and do a little literary matchmaking with one guest. Before we do that I want to ask
0:34.6	that if you find yourself enjoying this podcast please take a minute and read and review it on iTunes.
0:39.2	Just go to WhatShouldIReadNextPodcast.com slash iTunes and let me know there what you think of
0:44.4	the show. Today's guest is Jansen Bradshaw, creator of the blog Every Day Reading. We talk about
0:50.3	books with strong plotting, how you can be a serious reader and love Matt Damon and of course
0:55.6	what she should read next. Let's get to it.
1:02.2	Jansen, welcome to the show. Thanks, I'm so glad to be here. Well it's great to talk to you in person.
1:07.6	So Jansen you're a person who has a blog called Every Day Reading which my blog readers told me about
1:13.7	by the way. That's right. I forgot that. Yeah. The reading community it looks out for each other.
1:20.4	That was so nice. I was really super flattered. So obviously reading plays an important role in
1:25.4	your life. You even professionally were a reader and a curator of books during your time as
1:30.4	the children's librarian. Now you read for your own, you read for your kids. Tell me a little bit
1:34.3	about the role of reading in your life. Well I grew up in a family that loves to read and I
1:39.6	feel like as an adult now I recognize that it's not that common to have two parents that both
1:44.8	are pretty big readers. I'm listening to one summer by Bill Bryson right now which is really
1:51.7	good and there's a whole section about Charles Lindbergh and it's so interesting to me because I
1:57.4	personally interested in Charles Lindbergh because we went on a family vacation when I was probably
2:01.3	10 or 11 and my dad was reading Charles Lindbergh's biography. Why I have no idea why that was
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