Reader comments: Book pile can soften the pitfalls
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Dwight | 3:03 p.m. Aug. 11, 2008
I love "reserve piles" of books. Certainly I love them a lot more than my wife does. I referenced your column on my blog "The Curmudgeonly Professor" at dmblood.typepad.com, so you can check to see if I did justice to your comments. But your column on mailing packages and stuff to kids was the classic. Are there ever any differences in kids anywhere? I always check your column.
Sara | 11:11 a.m. Aug. 13, 2008
Great column! I love to read when life is awful. It's nice to borrow someone else's for a few hours. My favorites are Anne Perry, all of them, and Elizabeth Peters, the Amelia Peabody series. Learn about ancient Egypt while being gripped by a mystery, and having 17 books about the same wonderful family. Happy reading.
Shelley | 4:56 p.m. Aug. 21, 2008
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine St. Exupery. This probably shouldn't be on my reserve pile, I should have already read it. But the cover always fills my imagination with images of mustachioed Frenchmen flying alone over rocky mountains and sandy deserts - the wind blowing and scarves rippling. I almost don't want to read it in case the book itself does not contain those images.
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