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Smugness, anticipation, and procrastination

Nick Hornby writes a column for The Believer where he lists the books he buys and the books he reads every month. (If you are a book person, you’ll understand how this isn’t the exact same list.) I don’t actually read Hornby’s column: Lisa tells me about it, and reads me the really good bits. [...]


Yet the unread book stack remain undiminished

After much procrastination and self-imposed guilt, I finally caught up on posting book reviews over on reading notes:

The Geography of Thought: there’s more than one way to think
Both: featuring a bunny and astronauts, but not together
Martian Dawn: cheesy vacation reading
The Colorado Kid: I forgot how good Stephen King can be, especially when he isn’t [...]


I don’t know who Mark is, but I want to go to coffee with him

The weekend before last I was at Brookline Booksmith, just poking around. I’m well aware my unread book stack is nearly a shelf at this point, but I just can’t help it. I love bookstores. I love that they are places where ideas rub together, where I never know what I’m going to find, where [...]


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