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I couldn’t put a boring book down. Now I take pleasure in saying enough is enough
A couple of years ago, I was sitting in a creative writing workshop at my local university when the tutor made a confession. “I only give a book a handful of pages,” she said. “If it hasn’t hooked me by then, I put it down.” I thought her approach seemed a …