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Podcast: The Reading Culture
Episode: Touched for the Very First Time: Soman Chainani on Books That Turn Scrollers into Readers
Description: âI tell kids that books are not there to torment you. The author has to get you in the first ten pages. If they do not, they fail, because a book is like a lawnmowerâyou pull it, and either it starts or it doesn't start.â âSoman ChainaiSoman Chainani wants reading to feel irresistible. The bestselling author of "The School for Good and Evil," series and the recently released graphic novel, "Coven," shares how his own reading life beganâpowered by Anne Rice, Michael Crichton, and a complete lack of adult supervisionâand how those early obsessions shaped his b...