Tina Boudreau’s Reviews > The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading > Status Update

“I’ve taken to double-checking those sobering statistics compiled by Literacy Inc., that 33 percent of high school graduates never pick up another book, and that 42 percent of college grads don’t either. Oh yeah, and apparently 80 percent of American families did not purchase a book this year. I can’t imagine what people do without books in their lives.”