Chelsea Handler here. This week on the Dear Chelsea podcast, Riley Keough discusses the memoir she co-wrote with her mother, Lisa Marie Presley. But it's also such a gift to be able to sit here and say as an adult woman, I had such a good mother. Yes. That is a gift. I know. You know, she certainly was not like a, I don't know what a perfect mother is. Well, she wasn't a traditional mother. She wasn't a traditional mother.

I am so grateful to have had her as a mother.

To have that kind of love.

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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to start a reading project.

If you read just a little bit of something every single day, you can make it

through something big in a year. All you have to do is just keep going. Long time before breakfast

listeners know that in recent years, I have pursued a few long-term

reading projects to help me make it through some classic works of literature.

Many of us don't read the great books after we leave school.

But great books are considered great books for a reason.

They are often really great.

So in 2021, I read through War and Peace at a pace of one chapter per day.

War and Peace's 361 chapters are all very short.

By reading a 10-minute chapter each day, I could savor the book.

I felt very little resistance to reading, and I didn't feel pressure to read fast to make it through.

There were a few slow moments, but in general, I loved this tale of Pierre and Natasha and Prince André,

set against the backdrop of Napoleon's invasion of a Russia that was slowly lurching toward modernity.

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