Thursday, May 26, 2005

Talking about books

I went to a journalism conference this weekend where I had some truly superior conversations about books with my fellow attendees. During a couple of rare lulls in conversation, I asked people what are their favorite books. They seemed to really like the question, and I suppose that shouldn't be too surprising. Doesn't our taste in books say something important about ourselves? Certainly people who love books like to think so.
Naturally, I seized the opportunity to advance the cause of Spoon River Anthology. (See my earlier post on "Why Spoonreader?" here.) Others mentioned the books A Farewell to Arms and The Grapes of Wrath as their favorites. Those are both fine, fine books, too.

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