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In the classic welcome note of a column, a journalist called Yours Truly chats up a pen friend called Dear Reader with the wise words of a great philosopher called Anonymous and a connection is made.<\/p>\n

I was all about keeping my thread unscripted and personal, but for the sake of tradition, Dear Reader, welcome to Storyboard, a column where Yours Truly reports, conspires, reviews and champions everything books.<\/p>\n

I follow books more curiously than my exes\u2019 status updates, and stalk clever writers more dutifully than an insurance salesman. You can think of this column as a fire-in-the-bones thing not a career-minded nine-to-five.<\/p>\n

But if the only book you ever take home after work is the street-famous glue book for rats, my friend, you are probably reading the wrong column.<\/p>\n

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