How to Be a Better Reader, With Librarian Margaret H. Willison (RECAST)
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
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4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week we're learning how to be a better reader with help from librarian and podcaster Margaret H. Willison. Listen to hear Margaret break down how we should re-think our definitions of "good" or "well-read" readers, and the tactics we can use to improve our reading game. After our conversation with Margaret, we get tips from librarian and author Nancy Pearl on how to find a book you'll love.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team of LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm Alice Bradley, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker, |
| 0:21.2 | and today I'm joined by our new deputy editor, Jordan Calhoun. Hi, Jordan. How's it going, Alice? |
| 0:26.3 | Go well. Jordan, today we're tackling a topic that has been requested by our listeners |
| 0:31.2 | numerous times, and that is becoming a better reader. More specifically, how to improve on |
| 0:37.2 | our reading habits, finding the right books, and, you know, |
| 0:39.5 | all that good stuff. |
| 0:40.6 | I absolutely need that. |
| 0:41.8 | You know what I need is a book therapist, a literary therapist. |
| 0:45.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.8 | To help me emotionally be acceptance of who I am as a reader. |
| 0:50.8 | Because a better reader, that adds so much pressure. Yeah. So maybe the person who can help us |
| 0:56.2 | with that today is our guest, Margaret H. Willison. Margaret is a librarian by Dave, but she's better |
| 1:01.9 | known as a regular NPR personality. She serves as one of pop culture happy hours fourth chairs, |
| 1:07.7 | one third of the podcast appointment television, and one half of two bossy dames. |
| 1:12.5 | What I think we as adults should work on is not quantity, and we should relax a little bit |
| 1:18.4 | about quality as externally defined by organizations of prestige conference. And what instead |
| 1:27.2 | we should be focusing on is quality of experience. |
| 1:30.3 | After our chat with Margaret, we'll hear from librarian Nancy Pearl who'll tell us how to find books we'll love. |
| 1:36.3 | The first thing that you have to do is identify what it was about the book that you really enjoyed. And this is identifying not what the book is |
| 1:48.1 | about, but what it was about the book that you liked. In addition to being a librarian, Nancy is the |
| 1:55.1 | author of the novel George and Lizzie and a frequent guest on NPR's Morning Edition. She also |
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