Bookish Diversions: Lifetime Reader
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¶ A lifetime of reading. When Dan Pelzer passed away earlier this month in Columbus, Ohio, the 92-year-old left behind a treasure: a 109-page log listing thousands of books he’d read since 1962.
That was the year he found himself in Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer. During his off hours he worked his way stacks of paperbacks c…
