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PoindexterOglethorpe

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7. Actually, it's obvious to me that there's an enormous
Tue Mar 27, 2018, 12:21 PM
Mar 2018

difference between a novel and non fiction. In non fiction you often have photographs, so you don't totally make everything up in your head to begin with. And it's the other aspects of novel reading that come into play: getting inside someone else's head, seeing things from another perspective, just to name two. It doesn't happen the same way in non fiction.

Me, I read both. I also read an enormous variety in both fiction and non fiction, and if they were to stop publishing books entirely, I would never run out of books to read, even if I do live to be 108.

Right now I have 10 books checked out of my local library, 19 books on hold, and 160 books on the "Books I want to check out" list. Not to mention several hundred as yet unread books that I own.

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