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On Rereading
The first time through a book you read to find out what happens. Every time after that, you read to find out who you were.
A Due Date from 1987
A secondhand copy of Middlemarch still has its library card in the back. Someone renewed it four times.
Marginalia and Other Small Rebellions
In praise of writing in books, underlining badly, and arguing with authors who cannot argue back.
On the Pleasure of Slow Reading
A case for reading fewer books more slowly, on the theory that speed was never the point of a sentence.