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The Summer of Oprah: How Did You Get This Number?
Illustration by Brian McLachlan/Torontoist.
Today’s book is Sloane Crosley’s essay collection How Did You Get This Number?.
I am completely cheating. Crosley’s collection is actually the very last book on Oprah’s Summer Reading List. I already read this book. I interviewed Crosley for this very website. But I recently took possession of my first home and since that fateful Friday—I’m still convinced the bank is going to call and tell me this is all an elaborate prank concocted for some new HGTV reality show—I’ve been painting and spackling and sandpapering and stripping. I would have had time to read and be my lazy, procrastinating, four-hour-workday self if my Dad hadn’t come to town to help. He’s putting in fifteen- and sixteen-hour work days on my behalf. By the time I walk to the new house, bleary eyed and giant cup of coffee in hand, he’s finished a coat of paint, tuned up my bike, been to the grocery store, and trimmed the bushes in the backyard.
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