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For the lazy days of spring and summer, a roundup of the most rewarding books

By Gail Caldwell
May 28, 2006

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Like most of life's subtler pleasures, summer reading is most thoroughly enjoyed in all three tenses. Its anticipation comes to us in the grim present of winter, when -- overworked and underlit -- we believe that someday soon, in the warmth of Wellfleet or the briskness of Maine, we will have a chance to read Jared Diamond or James Patterson ... (Full article: 1639 words)

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