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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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Date: 2008-02-24 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com
My mum likes reading the sort of travel books where the writer is succumbing to tropical diseases, starvation and an unreasoning hatred of his fellow explorers. She finds these books are excellent when read by a real fire with a plate of scones and a large pot of tea.

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