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What's On Your Nightstand: A Semi-Regular Feature
March 14, 2007
Readers of my other blog know that I'm fond of asking what's on your nightstands -- and sharing what's on mine (to those who ask "Who cares what's on your nightstand?" -- and remarkably few have -- my response is, who really cares that Dooce's daughter likes licorice? But we keep reading... ).
This weekend, my nightstand stack let me down. I stared and stared at the volumes there, but couldn't get excited about a single one. Sigh. And sigh again. I finally went to my actual bookshelves and plucked a title I got from the Knopf bookroom a few months back (thanks, Knopf publicity!):
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford by Peter Y. Sussman.
What a tonic. Reading Mitford's sly, witty, and often incisive epistles kept me reading... and reading... Unfortunately -- past my bedtime. This is the challenge with nightstand reading, isn't it? What books put you to sleep -- and which ones keep you up late?
Posted by Bethanne Patrick on March 14, 2007 | Comments (0)
