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life-related in my apartment in Brooklyn, New York. My personal tips for coping include Marie

Condo and Your Safe Space and listening to LifeKit episode about effectively participating

in the TV streaming world. I just started to try our Disney Plus and would highly recommend

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Hi there, this is Megan Kane, managing producer of LifeKit. And since the start of the coronavirus

pandemic, I've heard from so many of my most bookwormy friends, they're having a really hard time

right now focusing on a book. Just when we most want to get lost into a book, we can't. Well,

we have some tips in this episode, which we originally made to help anyone who didn't really

read that much become more of a regular reader. And we really hope it helps you right now.

Okay, enough of me. Here's the episode. Hi, I'm Julia from Lawn and this is NPR's LifeKit.

Today we're talking about how to read when you're not really a reader, because I think we take for

granted just how complicated the process of reading can be. There is so much happening in your

brain when you crack open a book. Having background knowledge. There's also perspective taking,

critical analysis, inferential deductive inductive reasoning. There's also creating imagery and insight

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