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imagine a bookstore where everything's free

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It'd never work, sure, but what if it already has?

You ever have that feeling of reading a book when you’re tired but the book is so good that you keep reading and finally, there in the hazy periphery, you see a half-nude page aka the end of a chapter or even just some stars or a line to indicate a section break, so you say to yourself “I’m going to stop reading once I’m there,” but then you just keep reading like you whizz right past it because you’re so into whatever it is you’re reading that you forget you were supposed to stop? I’ve been having that feeling lately with this book called Who Will Run The Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore.…

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