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Too Many Books
Feb. 24th, 2008 05:57 pmMy sister (WINOLJ) suggested that one way of coping with the unread books piles was to read one "old" book, then a "new" book, then an old one again. Old is open to definition, but in my case let's say I've had it on the shelves for more than six months. So I picked up a "very old" book which ![[info]](https://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
la_marquise_de_gave me many years ago - Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov. My goodness, 500 pages of short stories about life in the Siberian gulag. Starvation! Overwork! Beatings! 60 degrees below! Gosh, I am going to be so improved when I have finished this. I have reached page 258 - more than halfway!
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la_marquise_de_gave me many years ago - Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov. My goodness, 500 pages of short stories about life in the Siberian gulag. Starvation! Overwork! Beatings! 60 degrees below! Gosh, I am going to be so improved when I have finished this. I have reached page 258 - more than halfway![Bad username or unknown identity: ]
