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bookstore

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Posted on June 10, 2014 by Angela
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I went to the bookstore and wrote out a list of books that I plan to check out from the library, but I couldn’t leave without two picture books that overwhelmed me with their preciousness. Reviews to follow.

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read persistently what they like to read

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Posted on June 7, 2014 by Angela
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The masses will only read persistently what they like to read; and… frequenters of a library will drop off just in proportion to the rigidity of the censorship of their taste

from a Scribner’s Article entitled The Boston Public Library, December, 1871

in response to all that hubbub

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