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

Back when I was living in New York and really quite poor, I read the entire Memoirs of a Geisha by popping into various Barnes & Noble stores in Manhattan when I had a few minutes for reading.

Green reading tip: Read books in-store.

This is best done in big chain stores that you don’t care about and vice versa, for new books not yet avaliable at the library. But be nice and treat the books kindly so they look new when you’re done with it, ready for someone else to fork over good money to own them.

I haven’t read an entire book in-store since, but I’ve definitely browsed and started reading a book at a Borders or Barnes & Noble, to later buy it used or from an indie bookstore –

But I didn’t get D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover this way; I bought it second hand for just a buck or so at Kulturas Books.

Somehow, I’d always thought that this book’d be written from the point of view of the lover, but no — It’s written in third person omniscient, mostly focusing on Lady Chatterley’s thoughts and feelings.

Most of you prolly know the book caused quite a stir — including an obscenity trial — when it was first published for what were then considered explicit sex scenes, with liberal use of scary words like fuck and cunt.

The novel begins bleakly, ends hopefully –

Book read: D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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