So Much to Read~Book Reviews, Limericks, Six-Word Summaries, Anti-Consumption Songs

So Much to Read

“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”—Samuel Johnson

I've always loved a page-turner

The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides: Marjorie Morningstar, set in the 80s. more

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Katherine Boo: A one-legged woman sets herself on fire. How does the author stand by and watch? more

Love, Inshallah, edited by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi: Muslim women write candidly about their love lives. more

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“There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breathgiving air…I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the Yale News—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the ‘well-rounded man.’ This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby