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• ‟ Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionally calming.

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• ‟ With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian.

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• ‟ People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable authority. It doesn't mean I'm always right.

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• ‟ I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

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• ‟ My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that people want to read them.

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• ‟ Many people know that Shakespeare's dramatic 'canon' was established in 1623 by the publication of the so-called First Folio. That hefty volume contained thirty-six plays.

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• ‟ Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.

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