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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to try experiencing that uniquely grown-up pleasure of rereading a book you were once assigned to read in school.

A good literature teacher can make great books come alive.

Unfortunately, plenty of people went through school

having the opposite experience.

Maybe a book wasn't taught well and sometimes even if it was, people resent being forced to

do things.

Or perhaps your mind was on other things in school, such as sports or another

activity, and you skim through a book doing whatever was required to pass. In any case, when I started reading seriously as an adult a few years ago, I had a realization.

And I know this is obvious, but so it goes with epiphanies.

A lot of the literature assigned in school is assigned because it is good.

Really bad books don't get reread for generations. In order to impress literature teachers who read a lot, a book

has to be pretty well put together. And yes, you can drive a book into the

ground when you need to write a paper explaining the recurring symbolism of, I don't know, that white whale.

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