It's the Simple Show. You've got episode 45. Hi, I'm Tishawksin Writer and on the Simple Show. We talk books,

travel and life at home. In this episode, I'm joined by my co-host, Haley Stewart. Hello,

Haley. Good morning. Tell us who you are and what you do. I have three kids and I also live in Central Texas. I'm a blogger and a speaker

and a podcaster and homeschool my kids and that's about what we do. And I also am a writer and a mom

also living in Central Texas about an hour away from you. Yeah.

You can find me and all my books and podcasts at the art of simple.net.

This is a books episode.

So we are going to talk about my choice, anything you want by Derek Siver.

And I'm going to talk about one of my recent reads, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Haley, since this is the first episode in this format, let's just talk about one of my recent reads, Since and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

Haley, since this is the first episode in this format, let's just talk a bit about books and

reading in general and why we both love it so much. So why do you love reading? I think why I love

reading is because I love story and find that super compelling. I think it's how I learn things. In college,

in a class, if I was taking a philosophy class, because there's kind of stories and narratives

to understand the concepts, I've got it. If it's a physics class and there's not like a narrative

story there, I am sunk. And so I think it's just how my brain is wired. It's wired

for a narrative for stories. And so ever since I started reading when I was little girl,

I just haven't been able to put books down. Also, I just have one older brother and he's six years

older. So it was almost like being an only child.

So I spent a lot of time reading in my room.

That's really funny.

That is very similar to me.

My brother is five years younger than me.

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