How To Start Reading Books Again (Encore)
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Kate stopped reading in 2016. Since then, she's tried to find her way back to it but something's not clicking, and it's left a book-shaped hole in her heart. Reading used to be something she really enjoyed, took pride in, and loved connecting with people over. On this episode of How To!, co-host Carvell Wallace brings in Maryanne Wolf, director of UCLA's Center For Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice and author of the book, Reader, Come Home. Maryanne explains the science behind the reading brain as well as how to deeply engage with books and make reading a habit again.
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| 0:30.1 | Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin. So summer is well underway and I don't know about you, |
| 0:36.3 | but it's around this time where I get |
| 0:38.1 | nostalgic for the summer reading programs. Remember those? As a kid, there was almost nothing |
| 0:43.7 | better than a trip to the library to look for a book you wanted to read, not one assigned by a teacher, |
| 0:49.5 | and sometimes you even got a prize, you know, personal pizza, just for reading. |
| 0:54.6 | Even though we've aged out of those reading programs, summer is still a wonderful time to sink your teeth into a good book, |
| 1:01.3 | which is why we're bringing you this gem from the archives all about rediscovering your love for reading. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm going to turn things over to my co-host, Carvel Wallace, and we'll be back |
| 1:11.5 | next week with a brand new episode. Enjoy. |
| 1:15.5 | Last week, I said to one of my colleagues, oh, did you read so-and-so's new book? And he was like, |
| 1:21.2 | the one that she published, like, four years ago? Oh, yeah, it's been sitting on my shelf |
| 1:26.6 | looking at me for four years. |
| 1:29.8 | Welcome to how to. I'm Carvel Wallace. I'm always so interested in what you, our lovely listeners, |
| 1:36.3 | need help with. We get life optimization questions. We get identity questions, tangly relationship |
| 1:42.0 | questions, but sometimes it's a question that's just deeply |
| 1:46.1 | relatable. |
| 1:46.8 | Hi, my name is Kate, and I live in San Francisco. |
| 1:52.1 | First of all, the How to Love Your Face episode broke me in all the best ways, so thank |
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