From Cheers, circa 1983: Sam contemplates reading Tolstoy's War and Peace in a little under 5 days.
Cliff: Oh yeah. What I'd say the first 800 pages are a little bit slow, but it shoots right off after that.

Sam: Whoa whoa whoa, wait a second! What are we talkin' about? I got five days, how long is this book?

Cliff: Well I've ( Read more... )

From The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, by Dan Savage, chapter 14 ("Two Moments of Transcendant Bliss"):
For children, promises are a deadly serious business because it's all they really have. They don't own anything, they don't control anything. The promises their parents make them are all they've got. And while no parent can ( Read more... )

It was just a few short years ago that I couldn't name the last book I had read. I have since turned away from that shameful corner of my past.

These are the books I've taken out on Summer Loan from the public library (mixed with a few books I actually own):


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