“By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading… Read more
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Sections in the bookstore – Books You Haven’t Read – Books You Needn’t Read – Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading – Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written – Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your… Read more
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This one came from my local library, as it is a subject of some interest to me. I’ll let you know what I think! Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum. One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed “fertility crisis,” and whether modern… Read more
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is… Read more
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“The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read.” – Prolific American authorTom Clancy Read more
I saw this on Reuters a while back, and I had to laugh. I always take my pony to the park with me to read! Read more
If you hang out here very often, you know that I love short stories. I think there is a real art to telling a story in just a few pages. In Lucky Alan: And Other Stories, Jonathan Lethem succeeds in a few stories – one or two stories stayed with me – but most left no impression. My favorite story by far… Read more