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I'm Abbey and I’m a reader. Now, like many readers I have the nasty habit of sometimes limiting myself to the same genre (fiction, especially Brit lit). This makes me a bad reader, so I have devised a cure: to blog. The Book Borrower will serve as a record of my steady rehabilitation back into all genres of books: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, short stories, and every other manner of text [1] imaginable. All the books I will discuss and review will only be texts that have been recommended to me, borrowed, or have serendipitously crossed my path.

Books are made to be borrowed, shared, and discussed. I want this blog to a be a forum for all readers; a forum to revel in what it means to experience text. So please, criticize, celebrate, or comment. This is my your our blog, and with each new post, book recommendation, hyperlink, etc. the blog evolves. Text is [insert adjective here], so play with it.

To business: I am currently reading 2 books. One is a tortuously dense and convoluted read, while the other is a tad bit lighter in content and form. While I usually don't condone double-dipping, it is for obvious health and wellness purposes. We readers need a light fling on the side every now and again to keep things from becoming too serious. Not to mention, I needed a pool side read. 

Book #1  Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski

Book #2  Are you there, vodka? It's me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

I'll leave it up to you, dear readers, to distinguish which book is the slightly less "dense".

The next post will be my first review, so stay tuned folks.
HINT: I will review the more marry merry of the 2 texts.
 
'til next time, to-da-loo readers. 

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[1] late 14c., "wording of anything written," from O.Fr. texte , O.N.Fr. tixte  (12c.), from M.L. textus  "the Scriptures, text, treatise," in L.L. "written account, content, characters used in a document," from L. textus  "style or texture of a work," lit. "thing woven," from pp. stem of texere  "to weave," from PIE base *tek-  "make" (see texture).