What's on Bill Gates's annual summer reading list this year? Microsoft's founder shared five books that "are simply ones that I loved, made me think in new ways, and kept me up reading long past when I should have gone to sleep."
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Flavorwire explored "25 fascinating female friendships in literature."
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The Reading Room offered "5 tips on how to fit as much reading into your day as possible."
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A little splash of immortality: Dead Writers Perfume "evokes the feeling of sitting in an old library chair paging through yellowed copies of Hemingway, Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Poe and more."
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Bustle shared "14 things all writers have said (and what they actually meant)."
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This spring, the Emily Dickinson Museum "has brought the poet's beloved orchard back to life" as part of a "longstanding effort to return the Dickinson estate to its 19th-century splendor," the New York Times reported.