{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6782b5e0793854daae5c5048/69e543526e5b90839ab503e0?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Brief Encounters Series: 3,599 Books and a Life Well-Read","description":"<p>﻿When Dan Pelzer passed away at 92, his daughter discovered something extraordinary — a handwritten log of every book he had read since 1962. All 3,599 of them. She turned it into a website and shared it at his funeral via QR code, and the reading community hasn't stopped talking about it since.</p><p>In this Brief Encounters episode, Desiree and Morgan dig into Dan's story and the bigger questions it raises: What do the books we read say about who we are? Are there books that feel permanently stamped to specific seasons of your life? And has a book ever actually changed the way you live?</p><p><br></p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><ul><li>The viral reading log that made us both emotional</li><li>Books that timestamp your life — Twilight, Harry Potter release nights, a box of Goosebumps from a yard sale</li><li>The DNF debate: is it okay to abandon a book?</li><li>The return of analog habits and why they're good for your nervous system</li><li>We build our dopamine menus live 🍽️</li><li>Honorable mention reads: <em>Evelyn Clarke</em> and <em>Yesteryear</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Visit Dan's log yourself: what-dan-read.com</p><p><br></p><p>Facts &amp; Fictions is a cozy book club podcast where we talk about the books we're reading and the thoughts we're having on them. New episodes weekly.</p>","author_name":"Desiree Reed & Morgan Kline"}