Love Does made me believe I was already great friends with the author. Like if I knocked on Bob’s door, he’d invite me in for coffee and we’d talk about the stuff old friends talk about.
Read MoreIf you want to understand the pre-Depression 1920’s, the lifestyle of old money, and the prevailing belief in the fountain of youth—The Great Gatsby will be your best textbook. You can sound smart and cultured and you won’t even have to read 400 pages.
Read MoreRead any of the Pigeon books and you will laugh. Guaranteed. It’s impossible to read them only in your head. The 2-dimensional drawings somehow have personalities and inflection that jump right off the page and out of your mouth.
Read MoreRare is the work that merits owning multiple copies just in case one must be given away in a pinch. Even rarer still is a work that comprises old language from 200 and even 300 years ago, which still speaks immediately to today.
Read MoreSome books beg to be underlined. In what might be the most efficient biography I’ve ever read, Paul Johnson re-introduces the preeminent leader of the 20th Century to the 21st—in only 166 pages.
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