One of my great “simple pleasures” in life is reading for fifteen or thirty minutes in bed before turning off the light. I went through a phase during internship during which I would intentionally read until I was falling asleep over my book, but I’ve moved on. Nowadays, when I realize I will drift off to sleep [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Literature’
July 23, 2007
Potter-mania
It’s striking how many people (nearly all adults) I see on the subway reading the final installment of the Harry Potter series. This is no ordinary book. At 750-odd pages and a distinctive yellow hard-back cover, it definitely earns the title of “Tome”.
Perhaps even more interesting are some quotations I read this morning on CNN.com:
When [...]
