[The one on the top of the pile is an Indiana Jones adventure that Norma brought over. It looks well-read. Mia offered companionable reading in silence as a solution - in which Grune could read and Mia could gradually fall asleep - but that's hardly fair to either of them. The rest of the books are either novels or plays.]
I was surprised that so many people would offer to bring me books.
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I was surprised that so many people would offer to bring me books.