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anef ([personal profile] anef) wrote2008-02-24 05:57 pm
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Too Many Books

My 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]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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