If you’re looking to increase your reading in 2025, today’s episode of Best of Both Worlds is for you!
Sarah and I discuss our reading habits, and then Sarah interviews Traci Thomas of The Stacks podcast. They discuss all things books, from reading habits during busy seasons (Traci has twins!), curating your reading lists, getting out of ruts, tracking reading, and much more.
In the Q&A a listener asks about the logistics of having overnight care for a couples getaway.
Please give the episode a listen! Sarah and I are also looking forward to our Patreon virtual meet-up tomorrow, at noon eastern, when we’ll be discussing travel goals and hacks. Membership in the BOBW Patreon community, which has a thriving forum (70+ comments on a thread of our top book picks of 2024!) in addition to monthly meet-ups, is $9/month. Please consider joining here. Thanks!
I felt like this comment of mine was going to become a 500-word-long comment again, and it did. I then made some deductions afterward.
For starters, Ms. Laura Vanderkam, the books that you wrote that I have read/listened to are “Off the Clock” and “Tranquility by Tuesday”. The books that you wrote that I am reading/listening to are “168 Hours” and “Juliet’s School of Possibilities”.
I do read some books every year, but I usually do not set reading goals at the beginning of the year.
I do go to a bookstore or a library every week, yes.
This episode discussed how we don’t need to finish reading all of the books that we started reading. I do find that to work to my benefit.
That’s when we look into the “reader’s slump”. Unfortunately – well, maybe fortunate for me – I have no idea what it is like to experience a reader’s slump.
Ms. Traci Thomas discussed how she can get so busy that she needs to use her nose to turn the pages on Kindle. I later also tried turning the pages on Kindle with my nose and found that the pages are, indeed, turnable. I also used my chin to turn the pages on Kindle, and found that as long as I shaved, my chin works just as well as my nose in turning the pages on Kindle. I also used my upper lip to turn the pages on Kindle and also found my upper lip to work just as well as my nose.