Remember the days when you could just sit down and read an entire novel in one sitting? You found a book that just drew you in and excited you, perhaps delighted you, made you laugh or just scared the living crap out of you. And you either had the time — or, as you’ve grown older — made the time. Maybe you blew off work or social obligations. Maybe you just said, “Fuck it. I’m not sleeping tonight.”
I’ve done that twice recently, first with Matthew Quick’s “The Silver Lining Playbook” and just this past Sunday with Luis Alberto Urrea’s “Into the Beautiful North.”
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