I do not really have this problem.... one way is to lean in to digital and read your books on kindle or if you want to be extra virtuous - libby. the digital library card / reading app
. I have a library card in philadelphia and haifa!

I can't read far enough to find out what he hits a student with!! please help!

Hmph. I will not be sending in my application then ...

I have never had this problem to the point that my kids laugh at me that what I do with books is no different to what they do with screens... Especially as these days I mostly read on kindle and on libby on my phone....

PG Wodehouse
Jerome K Jerome
Bruce Sterling
Iain M Banks
Erich Kestner
Michael Ende
JRR Tolkien
CS Lewis
Reginald Hill
Alexei Panshin

Wait how many did you say?

Insane and scary

we have lot's of conversations in my thoughts too! (and they help). I am always on the verge of writing you about them too... I've been thinking about this a lot. I enjoy having friends all over the world but sometimes I wish we all lived in the same downtown. I'm much better at just dropping bye

I feel like this poem all the time now. better to hang back and make a nice salad for the people around me, with a glass of nice wine perhaps.... as if I start talking to them about how things are it's three sentences in before I am foaming at the mouth and howling at the moon.