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Reading hard books as an extreme winter sport

Better Strangers
Better Strangers
Episode • Feb 17, 2023 • 19m

Having a hard time with the winter? Read an obnoxiously long book! This has been my strategy for getting through Seasonal Affective Disorder for a few years now, and it’s been one of the main things I’ve begun to look forward to in the winter time.

Here are the first two books I mentioned:

And these are the hard books:

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