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Podcast: The Readerly Report
Episode: The Readerly Report - Episode 53 - The Best Long Books To Read Over The Holidays
Description: Gayle and Nicole endeavor to recommend the best big books to read over the upcoming holiday season and get stopped up by the philosophical considerations they take when considering a big book. Why read? Pleasure of accomplishment? They want the ones that are thoroughly engrossing and hard to put down, but find psychological blocks in committing to starting a long book. Gayle discusses her yearly reading goal and the opportunity cost of reading big books, and they both agree that it's super easy to prioritize the shorter books before settling down with a tome. Plus, what they're reading and...