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Goal for June: Read a book a day. Follow my reading list here.

Keep money in your local economy by shopping locally for books, instead of going the Barnes & Noble route.

Green reading tip: Support your independent bookstore.

My closest one’s Dutton’s Brentwood, if I don’t count the used bookstores like Kulturas Books. Here’s a short list of my fave indie bookstores –

But I got Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises used at Kulturas, not Dutton’s.

Hemingway’s novels always makes me want to say fuck it all and pick up and move to Paris. Except I know there’s no way I could enjoy it the way he did — I’m not rich, and I’m not white, which makes it relatively tough to blend into the crowd and have real, un-self-conscious fun in it.

I love Paris in books; I liked it okay in real life — though I did really love the nutella crepes and put on a few pounds while there a few years ago –

Book read: Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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