Life-Changing Lessons
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Book synergy abounds with two titles that explore the sometimes dark, sometimes funny, sometimes supernatural relationship between parents and children. Plus, a listener question about "leisure reading" proves to be more complicated than it first seems.
Books Discussed:
Lanny by Max Porter
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, sometimes culture, and always what to read next. |
| 0:22.5 | I am Frank. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Gwen. |
| 0:25.3 | Oh. |
| 0:25.9 | How was it? |
| 0:26.5 | Was that a good Scottish accent? |
| 0:27.6 | She's trying to do Scottish accent. |
| 0:29.3 | I was thinking, freedom now, which is really... |
| 0:32.2 | Freedom now. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, don't insult the entire Scottish population. |
| 0:36.3 | Oh, I know. |
| 0:42.7 | Population. I know. because we got an email from someone in Scotland yes a listener who gave us a discussion point hot topic something to think about something to talk about |
| 0:50.7 | and we're going to have our producer read it so you can hear a voice |
| 0:55.4 | other than our own. Hello, Frank and Gwen. One of my friends finds it very hard to justify |
| 1:00.1 | leisure reading time in his life, and the way he squares it in his mind is to gamify by setting |
| 1:04.8 | tasks or goals, such as read-time books over the summer or read through the alphabet by author |
| 1:09.7 | or title. I, however, just sit down and read with a pot of tea, but sometimes I feel guilty for spending |
| 1:15.7 | an evening doing that when there are other things to do. |
| 1:19.1 | How do you define leisure reading and do you have to create a framework for reading or justify |
| 1:23.7 | its place in your life? |
| 1:26.1 | How do you define leisure reading and do you have to create a framework to justify its place in your life. How do you define leisure reading and do you have to create a |
| 1:28.5 | framework to justify its place in your life? I think there are a couple things going on in this |
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