(Audio)Books I've actually finished lately: 87

Although I do have to say it doesn't sound a lot like Dan Stevens...

(Audio)Books I've actually finished lately: 86b

Do audiobooks count, for 'reading' purposes?

I've decided they do - so long as they're unabridged. And doubly so if I've actually read them before.

(Audio)Books I've actually finished lately: 86a

That's right, motherfuckerrr. Cassettes. Putting the 'old' back into the Old Testament*.

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* The tape snapped halfway through St Matt's gospel. Seemed like a sign.

Thoreau - in context

Our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and mankinis.

Books I've actually finished lately: 85

Herodotus

Several pit players use the long stretch between 'Getting to Know You' and the end of Act I to pull out books or magazines. Primis said, "When I played South Pacific, I read Herodotus."

- Henry Alford, in The New Yorker 

InDefinition - 79

mumdinger, n. 1) excellent and/or particularly savage example of the mum-gag; 2) one deploying same; 3) the obvious.

Books I've actually finished lately: 83

Found in books - 9

In an old copy of Treasure Island...

!!

Of course

Of course, you end up becoming yourself, even when you’re a journalist.

- Rebecca Mead, in The New Yorker

Books I've actually (re-)finished lately: 82

I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

- Michael Ondaatje

Books I've actually finished lately: 81

InDefinition - 78

mumsplaining, n. when my mother tells me something that a) she's told me six or seven times before, and b) I'd prefer she thought I didn't need explained to me in the first place

Books I've actually finished lately: 80

Because if you haven't read Tristram Shandy, you are not yet born.

Books I've actually finished lately: 79