Now they just delete the book from your device. Even electronically, it was possible up to the age of the IPhone and Android to purloin a copy of a favorite book. On my shelf are two Bibles from my church. Pew Bibles and Hymnals are becoming less and less common. In my youth, (until I was fifty), I carefully purloined books. But I’ll read out loud together with you anytime. I cry when I understand something tragic, which I don’t think “anybody else will understand.” (Must see – A New Leaf with Elaine May (lead and director) and Walter Matthau. The book which I read afterward, not so much. I thought the movie “Ordinary People” (Robert Redford, director) was great. I have sometimes thought the movie was better. I had to buy full price on “Garden of Lamentations.” And recently I bought the signed hardcover and the eBook of “A Bitter Feast.” Not so long after that, I read all of Gemma/Duncan books again starting with the ones I could get electronically from the library and only then buying them cheap on Amazon. When I first returned to mysteries about six or so years ago, I read all of the “Someday, the rabbi …” I read them in the order that I was able to borrow them from the library or buy them on eBay. But I always struggle with “What is a spoiler?” But I feel obligated to explain to my roommate or whomever I am with, exactly what was funny. I love to laugh at the books I am reading. I prefer the slightly moldy smell of used bookstores and libraries. Sometimes if I am asked “What are you reading?”, I will answer with the last book I completed. I have bought too many books even to remember what I own. I have bought too many books to read in a lifetime. As an adult, my first cat was Dizzy for short. As a child, our parakeet was named Max, after Maxwell Smart. I don’t remember doing it but I am pretty sure that I have.
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