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Life Kit
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to LifeKid from NPR. |
| 0:05.5 | Hey everybody, it's MaryL. |
| 0:08.0 | When I was a kid, I was a beast when it came to reading. |
| 0:12.5 | I was gulping down books by the dozen. |
| 0:15.0 | I think that's in part because of that bookit program |
| 0:18.5 | where you'd get a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut |
| 0:21.0 | when you read a certain number of books. |
| 0:23.0 | But also, reading transported me to this other world, |
| 0:27.0 | filled with magic and adventure and possibility. |
| 0:31.0 | Plus, I had a lot of free time. |
| 0:33.5 | As an adult, I have lost some of that magic. |
| 0:36.5 | I get into these reading ruts because my time is limited |
| 0:40.0 | and nobody's offering pizza. |
| 0:42.0 | And also, I'm not sure what books I'll even like. |
| 0:45.5 | Okay, what kind of TV shows do you like? |
| 0:48.0 | That's where I start. |
| 0:49.5 | That's Tracy Thomas, porting for duty. |
| 0:51.5 | She's a creator and host of the stacks of podcast about books. |
| 0:55.0 | And Tracy is really good at recommending books |
| 0:58.0 | based on questions like this. |
| 1:00.0 | I told her I just watched a movie on Netflix called Uncharted |
| 1:03.0 | with Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg. |
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