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August 1, 2008

True Confessions

Starting Sunday, Read Street will be running its version of a reader's confessional. We'll discuss the books we started (with best intentions) but never finished, the classics we never actually picked up, and our guilty-pleasure reads. I've sinned as much as the next reader; right now, I'm staring at a Pulitzer Prize winner that has had a bookmark stuck square in the middle for months. So if you want to soothe your conscience, or just get some support from fellow readers, check back Sunday and throughout the week. We promise you'll feel better for it.
Posted by Dave Rosenthal at 10:00 AM | | Comments (1)
        

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With apologies to my now defunct book group, my confession is that I never did read Black Boy by Richard Wright. This was our last book selection--suggested by me. We may have survived if we had read the chick book and best seller Eat, Pray, Love by Elizbeth Gilbert.

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Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is the Maryland Editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.
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