A couple of days day after my buddy John Carbone asked me how I was doing on our read-a-book-a-month-goal, I saw this blurb on something called the Great American Read:
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Looking over the list of books (click here for a quiz on how many you’ve read) the T-V series will be discussing, it just impressed upon me all the more that my reading habits are not what they should be. I spend far too much time watching T-V and prowling around social media than I do reading good stuff like the novels mentioned in the above link. The opening line in one of the T-V Episodes shown in the Great Read Series sums it up nicely: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies; a man who does not read lives only one.”
While that take sounds fairly valid, I’m not so sure about the title and message in the following: