Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you ideas for how to be happier.

This week we'll return to a discussion of Elizabeth Nemesis Candy Crush and also take a deep

dive into the Happiness 9-1-1 songs.

I'm Gretchen Reuben, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, who I realize I've never actually

seen you play Candy Crush, but I know that you must do it a lot.

Yes, that's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen, I am a Candy Crush

Candy. I have a problem. Okay, before we get into that Gretchen, here's an update from a listener

who was talking about or happiness hack about reading books related to the places that you visit

as a way to extend the vacation vibe like I read Where Do You Go Bernadette when we went to Seattle.

Right. So Ashley says, a friend who's a loyal listener of your podcast sent along Episode 86

because she thought the book and travel segment would be of interest to me and she was right.

I work for a company called Longitude Books, recommended reading for travelers and our

premise is exactly that. Reading about where you're traveling is as important as the actual travel.

We are an online bookstore organized geographically and we specialize in finding the best books for

every destination around the world, including Great Literature. You mentioned Donna Leon and John

and both of these authors are huge on our site. For every destination, we have recommended reading

across many genres including literature as well as travel narratives, memoirs, biographies,

histories, natural histories, guidebooks, maps and more. It's really great. Check it out and

Longitude Books. And Gretchen and I both checked it out and it's a great site. Really fun.

Yeah, it's a great resource if you're going to go someplace like it just everything from nature

hikes to classics of literature. So it's a really fun way to explore all the books that are

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