And the I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell.

This show is about connection with each other and with ourselves.

And the hope is that the things we talk about here

will be fuel for better conversations

and a personal awareness.

This is an interactive podcast.

Each episode has a prompt and a topic that I want you to take to your journal,

text to your best friend, or answer on social media using the hashtag 10 things to tell you.

This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our stuff. I'll go first.

Welcome friends to this episode of the Ten Things to

Tell You Podcast. Yes, we are doing two books and reading

episodes in a row back to back and I am not sorry about it for one bit.

This is my very favorite topic of all time, books and reading, and I regularly do these best books lately

episodes, but since launching my own book, Share Your Stuff, I'll go first, into the world last month. It just means that I was talking about that book, primarily for weeks and weeks, and I am so ready to talk about other people's books,

even though I've actually been a terrible reader

for a few months now.

I think I have read less in the last three months than in the last decade or something.

It has really been a dry spell over here.

And so because of that, I am so extra grateful to have not one, but two guests on the show this week

to share the best books that they've read lately. And I really think that you are going to appreciate their

voices, their expertise, their taste. They are just two of my favorites to talk reading with

in all of the internet world. You might know this duo as the

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