But I will rein myself in, and tell you about just one, which I recently finished: George Saunders book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life. I laughed and breathed a great sigh of relief at the same time, pleased to see I am not alone in my habit of reading multiple books at one time I have bookmarks in at least seven right now. I was recently reviewing Virginia Woolf quotes, hoping to find a suitable prompt for the creative writing group that I facilitate, when I came across this one: “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” (From The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928). Nadja Lubiw-Hazard’s reading recommendation:
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