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Combine the words "free" and "pastry," and you've got me salivating. Tomorrow, Starbucks holds its Free Pastry Day -- until 10:30 a.m. you get a free pastry when you buy a "hand-crafted, brewed or iced beverage." Take this coupon with you, or visit the company website on your smartphone to show a digital version to the barista. Not a bad way to relax while you're reading. I'll be the guy at the downtown Charles Street store, ordering up a hot chocolate and scone.
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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You can feel that you've done your part to power at least one small corner of the publishing world tomorrow, as a Starbucks scone will definitely accompany me to the office in the morning. Thanks for the tip--it might even have been enough to pull Robert Burton out of his melancholy: "Fret not thyself because thou art poor, or contemned, or not so well for the present as thou wouldest be"--for thou hath scones, gratis!
Posted by: Levi Stahl | March 22, 2010 9:45 PM