(not me, just someone who also loves summer reading, but probably does not nod off like i do)

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“here is this delicious book and the whole day, both yours.”

the true pleasure or summer reading lies not so much in the novel itself, the writer hildegarde hawthorne explained in 1907, but the choice to devote oneself to it. summer reading as we now know it emerged in the u.s. in the. mid-1800s, buoyed by an emerging middle class and the birth of another cultural tradition: the summer vacation.

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Art credit: Couch on the Porch, Cos Cob, Frederick Childe Hassam, 1914