How to Pull Yourself Out of a Book Slump
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Gwen and Frank are both struggling to find the perfect book this week — and coming up with some ideas about how to do it. Plus: the glory that is Ilana Glazer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Frank. I'm Frank too. |
| 0:13.3 | Oh, we're both Frank. Frank too. T-W-O. Nice. Instead of T-O-O. I like it. I'm Frank too. Frank the second. |
| 0:20.2 | That means you've taken over. |
| 0:21.5 | Well, taking me over. |
| 0:22.7 | You've taken me over. My plan. My plan is working. Hi. You are in charge anyway. We're sitting in a different configuration today and we're really close to each other. Yeah. It's like the old days in the closet. We've burst out of the closet. |
| 0:19.9 | We have. |
| 0:21.0 | We were reminiscing about that. |
| 0:22.5 | It was nice. It was really nice. So I have a confession to make today. I'm in kind of a reading slump. Me too. Really? Yes. And I'm not kidding. Me neither. I was actually very upset last week and last yesterday, and I don't know who to blame. |
| 0:55.7 | Like, is it me? |
| 0:56.6 | You can blame me. |
| 0:57.8 | No, I would never, but I just feel like I'm not excited. |
| 1:02.0 | I feel distracted. |
| 1:04.3 | Well, we talked briefly about this last time. |
| 1:06.0 | We did. |
| 1:06.6 | I do have a tip that I am trying to apply to myself, which I have given to other people, |
| 1:10.7 | and now I get to see if it actually works in real life, which is to try poetry. |
| 1:14.8 | Because poetry is a great way to engage with books in shorter form. |
| 1:19.3 | I think after that poetry episode we did a couple of weeks ago, I started being like, |
| 1:23.3 | oh, I really need new poetry in my life. |
| 1:25.1 | And it kind of is coinciding with this really nice thing |
| 1:28.3 | that's happening where my colleague Lynn, who was on the show a while ago, is on this committee |
| 1:34.0 | and she reads a ton of new poetry. And like, it's kind of one of her roles on that committee to bring |
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