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Overcoming a reading drought, with Alice and Charlotte

2025-05-20
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How can you create more space for reading in your life, and rediscover the joy of it?

It’s the run-up to publication for Charlotte’s debut novel, Bring the House Down, and the post-publication glow for Alice’s latest book, Hark: How Women Listen, so today we’re talking about some of the weirdness that goes on the brain during the weeks before publishing a book, how we’re dealing (or not) with all of that, and how far away it all feels from the actual writing process.

And speaking of things that aren’t writing, Char has a problem: she’s been finding it unusually difficult to read, often only getting to page nine or ten before abandoning the latest book on her bedside TBR pile. Alice, on the other hand, has been blessed by abundant rains of reading inspiration, and is powering through book after book with joy. Char is after some advice for how to get back to that place.

Is it just a matter of putting away your phone, or is there more to it than that? How does what you read shape what you write? Plus, we find out the surprising book that Alice read while she was giving birth, and the most turgid book that Char has ever read when trapped in a holiday cottage.

What do you do when you find yourself reading less? How do you rediscover the joy of reading?

In Haste is presented by Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie and is produced by Holly Fisher for Hasty Productions, with original music by Maria Chiara Argiró and graphic design by Alicia Fernandes.



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