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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
When I was a kid, I was a beast when it came to reading, I was gulping down books by the dozen.
I think that's in part because of that book it program where you'd get a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut when you read a certain number of books.
But also, reading transported me to this other world filled with magic and adventure and possibility.
Plus, I had a lot of free time as an adult.
I have lost some of that magic.
I get into these reading ruts because my time is limited and nobody's offering pizza.
And also, I'm not sure what books I'll even like.
Okay, what kind of tv shows do you like?
That's where I start.
That's Tracy Thomas porting for duty.
She's a creator and host of the Stacks, a podcast about books.
And Tracy is really good at recommending books based on questions like this.
I told her I just watched a movie on Netflix called Uncharted with Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, and they are in search of, you know, buried treasure from long ago, and there are other people who are trying to get to it first.
It's a big, big adventure.
Okay.
Would you want a story that's set in the past, or would you want a story that is set in the present or in the future?
What I liked about this was that it was set in the present, but they were looking for something from the past.
She also asked how I want to feel when I'm reading happy or maybe tense, but only in a, you know, gotta solve the mystery kind of way.