Father Tom Lam

          They say, “Confession is good for the soul.”  And being that this is a new year, I don’t really mind confessing that when I was in high school, I used to use Cliff’s Notes.  Those were the days before the internet.  We now have access to so much information at your fingertips.  But back when I was in high school, you could rely on these nifty, concise black and yellow cover booklets that gave summaries of long novels that we were supposed to read from cover to cover in high school English class.  And if I were brutally honest, I would admit that I sometimes found even the Cliff’s Notes much too long in its literary analysis.  I just wanted the short, straightforward summary of the book.  So most of the time, I would look for the synopsis at the beginning of the Cliff’s Notes and rely on that to give me a preview of what the rest of the book had in store for the reader. 

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