Second Cup: Commit to a 2020(3) must-read

Before Breakfast

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Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 11 February 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Make this the year to cross one classic off your list

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0:00.0	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.
0:09.3	Good morning.
0:11.4	This is Laura.
0:13.8	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:17.0	Today's tip is to commit to a must-read for 2022.
0:23.0	I am sure many people listening to this have a long list of books you would like to read
0:27.6	at some time.
0:29.9	So why not choose one of those books and make 2022 the time?
0:37.6	As long time before breakfast listeners know, I have spent the past year reading slowly
0:43.4	through war and peace.
0:45.8	I read Leo Tolstoy's epic for the first time in 2017 and really enjoyed it.
0:51.5	But I also read it quite quickly, probably to get through it.
0:56.3	I decided I wanted to reread this book so I could understand its complex characters
1:01.6	and the way Tolstoy weaves together philosophy and history and narrative action.
1:07.4	If generations of book lovers have identified war and peace as one of the best novels ever
1:12.3	written, then I wanted to make sure I really enjoyed it.
1:18.2	There are probably classics that you keep meaning to read.
1:21.7	Maybe you read them once in school, but you think you missed some of the nuances.
1:26.7	Or maybe you just keep hearing how profound these books are, and you want to experience
1:31.2	that yourself.
1:33.2	Moby Dick, Ulysses, Beloved, Middle March, The Brothers Caramazov.
1:40.7	The list is long of classics we just can't miss and yet we inevitably have missed some
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