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Help me love reading again | Ask a Book Critic

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English - August 23, 2021 09:00 - 10 minutes - ★★★★ - 41 ratings
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A listener asks for help with getting out of a reading rut. A voracious reader as a child, they now need some help falling in love with reading again. Vox Book Critic Constance Grady recommends big, grab-you-by-the-throat books to help us all rediscover our love of reading. Plus, hear some of Constance’s conversation with Tamsyn Muir from their Vox Book Club Zoom event.
Constance recommends:

The Carry On series by Rainbow Rowell

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

The Shadow and Bone series by Leigh Bardugo

Sorcery and Cecilia: Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede

Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth of the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

If you’re looking for a book recommendation, you can email [email protected] –  Be sure to use the subject line “Ask a Book Critic.” 
 
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A listener asks for help with getting out of a reading rut. A voracious reader as a child, they now need some help falling in love with reading again. Vox Book Critic Constance Grady recommends big, grab-you-by-the-throat books to help us all rediscover our love of reading. Plus, hear some of Constance’s conversation with Tamsyn Muir from their Vox Book Club Zoom event.

Constance recommends:


The Carry On series by Rainbow Rowell

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Shadow and Bone series by Leigh Bardugo

Sorcery and Cecilia: Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede

Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth of the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir


If you’re looking for a book recommendation, you can email [email protected] –  Be sure to use the subject line “Ask a Book Critic.” 

 

Enjoyed this episode? Rate Vox Quick Hits ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

 

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