4. Anne Bogel: How To Make Your Reading Life Fun & Delightful

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Books recommendations are a lot more difficult than people think, there’s no one size fits all answer“My favorite book might be one that put you to sleep and the book that changed my life might be the book you couldn’t get through chapter three on” – Anne BogelWhen you recommend someone a book they didn’t ask for, it’s like giving a gym membership to someone for Christmas when they didn’t ask for one“We just don’t understand how other people read for different reasons and enjoy different things and they have different priorities and personal histories” – Anne BogelThe Book Police doesn’t exist. No one is going to take away your reading license or library card for not reading the “right” books.“So many readers feel like they’re doing it wrong…that there’s some objective standard out there or some brigade of English teachers that is going to come and take away their reading license if they don’t do it right” – Anne BogelA person who reads lives a thousand lives while a person who doesn’t only lives one“You get to experience what it might be like to live a different kind of life for 300 pages at a time…There’s nothing like reading to quickly and effectively transport you to another world, another experience, another culture, another view”  – Anne BogelWriting in a book helps you understand what you’re reading, remember the important parts, and make it easier to go back to in the future “If you’re going to take the time to read a book, you want it to stick with you and it’s such a simple way to help make that story or information a little bit sticker” – Anne BogeConnecting over a book is a great way to skip small talk with someone and get into a deeper conversation“That’s what books do, they let you connect over the things that matter most to all of us is a really engaging, entertaining, and not socially awkward way” – Anne Bogel“We don’t enter adulthood as fully formed adults nor do we enter adulthood as fully formed readers” – Anne BogelOnce you leave school, you have to learn how to select good books and find time to read on your own because no one will make you read anymore“School teaches people how to read but not how to be readers” –  Alex Wieckowski

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My guest today is Anne Bogel, author of I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life and podcast host of What Should I Read Next?
Anne shares lessons from her book such as the benefits of reading and rereading books, why the Book Police don't exist, why you should consider writing in your books, and more great reading tips.

If you love reading, you'll enjoy this episode. 

TIMESTAMPS:

00:49 About Anne Bogel1:17 What inspired Anne to write a book about reading2:00 Challenges of giving book recommendations3:41 There's no Book Police (or why you can read whatever you want)6:00 Joy of finding the right book at the right time8:06 Benefits of reading books9:30 Benefits of going to libraries11:14 Dangerous of being book bossy & avoiding the word Should14:45 The rite of passage all reader go through (being a reader post-school)16:34 Benefits of rereading books19:03 Why you should write in your books20:50 Benefits of tracking your reading & using Goodreads 23:08 How reading can be a social activity25:16 The emotional impact of a great book 26:58 Two books that had a huge impact on Anne31:02 Two books that influenced Anne to become a writer

Learn more about the author:

Twitter: @AnneBogelInstagram: @AnneBogelWebsite: ModernMrsDarcy.com

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