A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Dave Eggers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nLooking over that “unread” list, I don’t have a ton of regrets. I’d most like to get around to reading D.H. Lawrence, maybe the Schama book, and Byatt’s Possession<\/em>. Of the ones I did read, I rank Little, Big<\/em> at #1,<\/em> then Gould’s Book of Fish,<\/em> then all the rest.<\/p>\nI’m going to try to read those Stoppard plays again sometime, since I just didn’t follow them well enough. I was probably just reading for volume, which is never a good idea.<\/p>\n
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