Reading fifty-two books taught me to abandon more of them
One a week for a year. The real lesson was permission to stop at page thirty.
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Books, margins and secondhand copies. Finishes about half of what she starts, on purpose.
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Reading fifty-two books taught me to abandon more of them
One a week for a year. The real lesson was permission to stop at page thirty.
The library book with someone else's notes in the margin
A stranger argued with this author in pencil in 1994, and they were right.
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