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Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, published in 1987, is our June recommendation, because the novel explores the quintessential theme of friendship.
Today we launch The Independent’s “Slow Reads.” Every month, we will recommend a book – not a new one – that is worth reading s-l-o-w-l-y, not on the Metro or in snatches. A book for which you will shut down the email and muzzle the tweets, avert your eyes from Facebook, and stop text messaging. We’ll provide a Slow Reads Forum for our readers to share their reactions to the book, and to nominate books for the months to come.
Martha Toll explores the pleasures of deliberate reading.
