![]() ![]() ![]() Not until this past week did I find myself doing it again, this time with Ling Ma’s 2018 debut novel Severance. It’s been a long time since I’ve stayed up until the early morning hours reading. The summer of 2011 was a summer well wasted. I’d spend afternoons reading by the side of the public outdoor pool, and when that wasn’t enough, I’d stay up until two or three in the morning reading by my nightlight. My book friend and I burned through Koji Suzuki’s Ring series about haunted VHS tapes and dead girls at the bottom of water tanks, science books by physicist Richard Feynman, and Steig Larsson’s crime-thriller Millenium trilogy. ![]() So, physiologically, video games were ruled out for me. All my other friends at the time were engrossed in playing Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto, and whenever I tried to join in, I would get a motion sickness so intense that I would be throwing up within minutes. I didn’t know how else to fill my time other than with books. We’d spend afternoons browsing the dim aisles of the fiction section, checking out books, and strolling around the nearby lake and trail that led back to our neighborhoods. In the summer between ninth and tenth grade, my friend and I would frequently visit the Newmarket Public Library. ![]()
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