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Jan 9, 2025 53 min

Fact or Fiction? It's bookish mythbusting time!

from All Books Aloud Hosted by Elizabeth Brookbank & Martha Brookbank

Send us Fan Mail [Apologies, listeners! We're re-releasing this one because there was an audio glitch in the original episode. If you've already downloaded the episode from Wednesday, try this one instead!] Happy New Year! There are some beliefs, truisms, urban legends, myths, whatever you want to call them, about books and reading that seem like they just won't die. Do audiobooks really count as reading? Are all readers introverts? Has reading education in schools really gone downhill? Is learning to read a natural process that will just happen organically if we let it? We talk about all these questions and more. Join us for some bookish mythbusting to start the new year! ----------------------- Books we're reading in this episode: The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl The House Witch by Delemhach This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Le Fay (Morgan Le Fay #2) by Sophie Keetch ----------------------- Sources: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-biggest-myths-about-reading-books Five Myths About Reading & How to Put Them to Death (goinswriter.com): https://goinswriter.com/reading-myths/ Ten Myths About Learning to Read | Reading Rockets: https://www.readingrockets.org/topics/about-reading/articles/ten-myths-about-learning-read The Myths About Reading We Need to Bust | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/myths-reading-we-need-bust-bitelyai Support the show ----------------------- Intro and outro music: "The Chase," by Aves. Support us! If you liked this episode, please consider becoming a monthly supporter of the show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2235482/support. It also really helps us reach more listeners if you leave us a rating and/or review, especially on Apple Podcasts. Reach out! Do you have thoughts, questions, or ideas for future episodes? Email us at [email protected]. To learn more about the podcast, visit our website at allbooksaloudpod.com. If you'd like to see more bookish content from Martha & Elizabeth, follow us on Instagram and TikTok @allbooksaloudpod. Read on!

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Send us Fan Mail [Apologies, listeners! We're re-releasing this one because there was an audio glitch in the original episode. If you've already downloaded the episode from Wednesday, try this one instead!] Happy New Year! There are some beliefs, truisms, urban legends, myths, whatever you want to call them, about books and reading that seem like they just won't die. Do audiobooks really count as reading? Are all readers introverts? Has reading education in schools really gone downhill...

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