Bookworm, most of what I’ve listed are lighter reading, and even the serious scholoarship is not typicall read in the Beth Medrash. I read Horeb at night before going to sleep when I was in college. The Chajes books I read in schul Shabbat mornings when bored with the davening. Halachik Man I also read in my spare time when in yeshiva in Israel (whew was the Rosh Yeshiva mad at me for that one; madder then he was about the Sidney Sheldon novel my roommate was reading when he did the raid). Just becuase one puts his feet up, doesn’t mean the quality of what he reads needs to diminish. I never read fiction, with the exception of Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Wolfe, which are more in the line of social commentary.
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