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	Podcast:		MashReads Podcast
	Episode:		Celebrating books and setting New Year's Reading Resolutions in 2017 (with Lisa Lucas from the National Book Foundation)
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:52:58
	Publish Date:		2017-01-04 09:35:56
	Description:		If you're a book nerd, there's one goal that's always on your list of New Year's resolutions: read more books. But with the hustle and bustle of daily life, the question remains -- how do you set a good reading resolution and actually accomplish it in the year? Luckily, we brought in an pro to give us some advice. This week on the MashReads Podcast, we are joined by Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. The National Book Foundation is non-profit organization dedicated to honoring great American literature, with a plethora of annual programs ranging from the Innovations In Reading Prize to the National Book Awards. In other words, they are experts at discovering and celebrating great books. "It seems to me that so many of the things every community really loves has some relation to books and literature," says Lisa. "Books are one of our most important keepers and disseminators of our ideas." Join us as we chat about celebrating books of all genres, how to set a New Year's reading resolution (that you can actually accomplish), how to discover great new books, how get through a reading funk and more.
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