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Never loan a book to me

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I realized today that I currently have in my possession five books that were loaned to me that I still haven't returned nor read in their entirety. Three of them were loaned to me BSE (before September 11th 2001). I took possession of the other two quite some time ASE. It's not that I have no intention of reading any of them. In fact the most recent ones I have read at least a portion of them. But I have to face it, I will never read the other three. Now I face the dilemma of returning these books unread. What will the loaners think of me? Will they want to engage in some sort of book critique? Should I just look for some sort of brief synopsis so I can fake knowing what the book was even about?
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💬 4 comments

  1. janelle ·

    Is one of them mine, because you can give it back to me when you have me over for dinner ;)

  2. jbeatty ·

    I was waiting for that :) I have read some of it, just not the whole thing yet.

  3. tinypliny ·

    I still have your Lebanese cook book. Is that a hint that I should now be stressing out about how I haven't cooked even 50% of the recipes on there?
    Oh dear.

    • wrings hands**

  4. john ·

    Well, you usually have my books at least a year before I see them again. I still have one of yours from BSE. It's sitting on my shelf of borrowed unread books. I'll probably get to it someday, but probably not before I see you next.

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