If You Don't Love to Read, Here's What You Need to Do

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English with Jennifer


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I was lucky. My father read books  to me when I was a little kid,  
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um, growing up, and I can I remember those  times with him. I also had experiences where,  
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um, on a few occasions, I read  a book that I couldn't put down.  
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Um ,and it was just lucky, you know.  I just picked up this book and, okay,  
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I'll just start reading and then next thing you  know it's, like, three in the morning and I can't  
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stop reading it! And some people have a name for  that. They actually call it a "home run book." Um,  
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and I guess I would just say, you know, a home run  is a baseball term, right? So, when you hit a home  
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run and you hit it hit the ball out of the park  and everybody goes, "Yay!" It's a highlight of  
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baseball. Like, if you don't know about baseball.  You could, you could change maybe the language how  
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you say...and say, " don't like to read" and then  "yet." Put the "yet" in there and then believe  
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that somewhere out there, there's a home run  book or a home run story waiting for you to read.
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