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D o you have a ‘voracious good at their craft that it was impos-

sible not to liken them to gourmet
appetite’ for reading?
Have you ever ‘devoured’
a book? Have you ever had pastry chefs adding the finishing
touches to their edible creations. You
the depraved desire to slather your know what I mean when I speak of
first-edition F. Scott Fitzgerald classic rich desserts: luxuriously self-indul-
with whipped cream and chocolate gent treats like chocolate mousse,
sauce? Do you look forward to resum- fudge, cashew cream profiteroles,
ing that book you put down on the fluffy meringues, amaretto-drenched
subway with the same hunger that you tiramisu, gelato in all their glorious
anticipate that chocolate cake at your forms... just to name a few.
favorite restaurant? Does a good des- Books consistent with such dec-
sert make you feel equally comfortable adence are so pleasurable to read they
as a good book, like you would want to don’t even feel like literature or edu-
curl up in bed with either? cation. They’re the types of books
You know how some books are where you just submit to the pleasure
so riveting they’ll make you miss of getting lost in the plot. A few of my
your stop on the train? These are the favorite ‘dessert books’ include Anton
books you just can’t help but com- Chekhov’s The Seagull, Goethe’s
pare to... well, dessert! I have always Faust, Denis Diderot’s The Indiscreet
thought that some authors were so Jewels and anything by Irvin D.Yalom.

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