• A row of books on a table with one book in the foreground.
  • A man sitting in front of some books on a bookshelf.

  • Outside of a dog, a book is a man‘s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
    ~Groucho Marx

    A stack of books on top of each other.
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Welcome to BookMarks, a site devoted to reading, writing, and quirky pursuits.  As both an avid reader and an obsessive ‘recorder’, I began a book journal in 1978, noting all of the books that I’ve read and eventually writing brief reviews of them.  When the mailing list for my annual Reading Lists exceeded 300 friends and family, it became clear that it was time to enter the modern age and create EpsteinReads.com.

~Michael F Epstein

Book Journal

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Reading Lists

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Poetry Tree

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Other Projects

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With deep gratitude to Susan Gilbert Epstein, who has supported all my endeavors for more than 50 years and contributed her creative eye to the design of this website.