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Friday, March 26, 2021

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Bookish Quote

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

2024 Reading Goal

YTD: 8 Books Read & 56 Hours Spent GOAL: 100 Books Read & 1500 Hours Spent

2023 Reading Goal

FINAL: 263 Books Read & 2196 Hours Spent GOAL: 100 Books Read & 1500 Hours Spent

2022 Reading Goal

FINAL: 252 Books Read & 2315 Hours Spent GOAL: 100 Books Read & 1500 Hours Spent

Bookish Quotes

"A bit of good trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet. " (Phyllis McGinley, author)

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Peregrina651: Philadelphia born and bred. Alive and well and living near Boston. Married with children -- and grandchildren. Retired and reading, a lot! Happy to be traveling again.

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Friday, March 26, 2021

Filched From Facebook: Malapropism

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