Quick Reading Hacks + Book Recommendations (with Traci Thomas)

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Do you want to read more but can’t seem to find the time? Christine chats with Traci Thomas about the why and how around reading, how to handle book slumps, reading as a connective thread, and more—including Traci’s only true reading goal, which is shockingly doable. For links and resources mentioned during the episode, check out the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.0	We're having a baby.
0:06.0	We're having a baby.
0:07.0	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.0	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.0	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.0	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.0	I think of it like a Tamagotchi.
0:17.0	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby.
0:21.6	Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.2	18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.
0:35.3	Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:42.3	Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.
0:56.8	I often hear from folks how they want to read more and how it's hard to read more,
1:02.3	so I'm very excited to bring you a fun conversation that I'm sure will inspire you to turn to a
1:07.9	book when you have a little pocket of time. And by pocket, I'm talking even
1:12.6	five to ten minutes while you're waiting in line or at a kid pickup or enjoying your morning
1:17.9	coffee. Tracy Thomas hosts the popular book podcast, The Stacks. To say she lives and breathes
1:24.7	all things literary is an understatement. She is a contributor on
1:28.8	NPR's Here and Now, a columnist for Shereads.com, and the creator of the literary series
1:34.6	One for the Books. She also hosts and moderates literary events, book festivals, and author
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