Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
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The supervising teachers break the school year down into units, and then weeks within those units, so I know to look for books about apples, or pumpkins, or Halloween, or bread. I very much appreciate this simplified approach to the passage of time.
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Life is so much better with books than without.
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The list of stupid things smart people have said and thought in the general category of Books is endless.
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If porn is the rapid slaking of an elemental thirst, then maybe these books are porn, in a way: slaking our elemental desire to believe there is one specific place, time, and person for each of us. That the correct decision is possible, and we can win at life.
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Fear-free produce purchasing is a strange kind of privilege, I know, but still: privilege.