Quote of the Day: One Man's Reading List of 3,599 Books Can Now Be Seen by All
JOHN PELZER, on what his father, Dan Pelzer, would be doing when friends came over during high school. When the elder Pelzer recently died at 92, his children posted the list he kept of books he read from 1962 to 2023, about 3,599.
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