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29 December 2010

My afternoons with Montaigne

When the novelist Yiyun Li rationed her use of the internet, she found herself ignoring too many ema

By Yiyun Li

A little over a year ago I disconnected myself from the internet, a technology-unfriendly decision for someone whose husband works in the IT industry. The reason for this decision: as a mother of two young children who teaches full-time and writes books, I don’t have much time left for reading. Idecided to give up web-surfing to stay a better, calmer bookworm.

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