All the sweet books I read on vacation

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Returning from vacation tends to engender three questions: How was it? Where did you go? What did you do? For meβ€”freshly returned this week from a five-day sojourn to Vermontβ€”the answer to No. 3 is almost always β€œI read all of the books.”

My vacay book binges aren’t just the byproduct of fast reading. They’re a result of devoting entire glorious days to the taskβ€”turning off the TV, hiding my phone, putting on my comfy pants, and settling into a cushy armchair, preferably one facing some sort of relaxing outdoor vista. In Vermont, it was the pillow-padded wicker deck chair of a cabin on Lake Champlain (at right). Here’s what I got done:

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