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Although my bookcase at home is loaded with new books asking to be read, and despite the wonderful new books that Brown Library has added to its collection this year, I recently went “old school” and picked up a book first published in 1960: You Learn by Living by Eleanor Roosevelt. After … Read the rest
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I am in a book club at the Yoga Center on Franklin Road. We’re currently reading Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. It’s about Greg Mortenson, a man who tries to climb … Read the rest
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There is usually a gap between what I read and what I aspire to read. I just finished a long story called “The Santaland Diaries,” from a book by Dave Sedaris called Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays. “The Santaland Diaries” is an hilarious and unsentimental description of Sedaris’ stint as a Christmas … Read the rest
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