A lost art…the art of reading real novels… where you are the producer & director of the images the book brings to the mind.
Reading actively always reminded me of a collaboration between the writer and the reader.

Lucy Mancini.

For years now, when I'm asked to name the #1 American film of all time—-It's been Godfather 1 & 2, taken as a whole. I've seen it close to 20 times and have memorized so much dialogue that I can astound my grandkids with my recitations (as if it was Shakespeare to my generation).
:"Leave the gun. Take the cannolis."
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