Oh, welcome back. The Book Right Podcast. Today we're taking a long look back at a most unusual summer through the prism of the reading we've been doing and what

we've been liking, what we've made it through, how we felt about it. You know, it's kind kind of weird I think some of our picks reflect

something about the world and some of them don't. I think my reading for sure has

been affected by the world, my energy level, just the very strange terrarium of experience that we all

are going through right now.

And I'll be so curious to hear what your picks are here in a second.

Rebecca, I guess the first thing I want to know is are you

reading more less the same can even tell and if so how can you tell less I do have a sense of

it because spreadsheets yeah less less than a

non-coveed year but not a whole lot less it has felt like less but I think it's because I've been reading and my reading patterns are different.

Like, there will be like days long stretches where I don't read anything at all and then I get a

Saturday where I read a whole book. Or like I've been reading one or two chapters a day of stamped from the beginning for the last like month and a half.

So it's like these little snippets. But my total for the year is probably going to come in under what my total for last year was and that's okay.

But I think reading has been, I don't know,

serving a different function to me,

or like what I'm wanting to read,

what I'm drawn to in books is definitely different right now.

Yeah, I'm certainly reading less. There's no question about it.

And some of it is to be expected just in terms of the way that my days are shaped this day,

you know, my audiobook listening, my podcast listening is down a lot.

I just don't have a lot of time when, you know, frankly, it's just me doing the dishes,

doing the, going to the grocery store, you know, working on the house, the interstitial times where I'd have an audio

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