reading

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There’s documented marginalia and scribblings that suggest a serious reader, and anecdotes about her reciting poems at parties, reading Proust on set, and expounding on Whitman, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

The story he tells, especially in its grim final chapter, should be required reading for leaders of modern nations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

They came up with the idea during a night in the pub after Mayall had just done a week-long stint reading George's Marvellous Medicine on Jackanory.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

The holiday-shortened trading week includes the release of another inflation reading, in the form of the personal consumption expenditures index, which is expected to rise 3.8% in April from a year ago.

From Barron's • May 24, 2026

Me reading names out, Bubbe not recognizing any of them.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler