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“You were reading a book during a funeral?” he asked as if horrified. “Alice, how could you?” “Well . . . it was a very good book,” I said with a little shrug. “I couldn’t help myself. I needed to find out what happened to the heroine.”
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“Did you ever stop to think that maybe you read too much?”
“That’s absurd,” I said with a little laugh. “Nobody can read too much. That’s like saying someone breathes too much.”
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Remember the time you kept calling him by the wrong name? It was the name of the hero in the book you were reading, wasn’t it?”
so we must cut back to the essentials, too.” “But books are essential!”
I know you’ve had some difficult losses, but you won’t get over them by sleeping late and reading books all day.”
I-I could say the Lord’s Prayer . . .” “No thanks. I’m thinking the Good Lord has that one about memorized by now. He don’t need to hear it again.”
could cry buckets of tears when reading books with sad endings—and sometimes I cried over happy endings, too. Why didn’t I feel those emotions in real life? I
“That’s what comes from reading too many books. They give you an overactive imagination.”
