I choose what to read based on a whim and friends’ recommendations, by publication date and library due date. I don’t carefully plan exactly what I’m going to read next, and in what order. I may walk into a bookstore and leave with my next read at the emphatic urging of an excited bookseller, even if I didn’t know that book existed an hour before. Maybe three unrelated people recommend the same book to me in the course of a week, and I decide to take the hint. Maybe my kids tell me I have to read a certain title, or for reasons I can’t articulate, I decide it’s finally time to pull one of
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