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“I also had a bunch of research I have to do, so the novel-reading started up slowly.”
““This quip is not dishonest: though I have several friends who have combined novel-reading with motherhood very successfully, in my own head I hold a convoluted equation, one based on the approximate number of hours I have left to live versus the number of good books I have left to read, and it is very anxiety-inducing.””
“Crain further wonders whether "the recent decline in novel-reading in America hasn't got something to do with the country's new tolerance for torture and lack of concern about human rights.”
“Thus one might infer that his concern for the decline in novel-reading is also an accompanying lament for the passing of the novel in its realist/character-centered phase (at least characters who are relatively unproblematic in their psychological make-up, who give us desired access to their "inner feelings.")”
“No respectable evolutionist would bother with the question, “What was the adaptive value of ‘novel-reading’ genes?””
“Further, diligent novel-reading is hardly a fixed trait in the human species.”
“It's the time of year when that novel-reading itch kicks in and we feel compelled to drop all activities in favor of reclining on a lawn chair (or a sofa, or a towel, or a hammock -- we're not picky) and burying our noses in a gripping summer read.”
“This book's numbered chapters muse on the pleasures and perplexities of novel-reading.”
“I couldn't put it down": so the cliché about the pleasure of novel-reading goes.”
“What I was trying to say was that her first year here, May actually wanted to form some kind of novel-reading club.”
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