""I think he's one of those people who traveled through books," said his daughter, Marci Pelzer, who found out about her dad's list 20 years ago. "It was an escape. It kept his mind going.""
""He loved learning," said Marci Pelzer. "It was just his favorite pastime, his favorite thing.""
""The only requirement was that it was a real page turner," said Marci Pelzer about the variety of books her father read. "The one rule he set for himself was if he started it, he finished it.""
Dan Pelzer accumulated a list of 3,599 books that he read from 1962 until his death at age 92, recording each title by hand or type. Reading accompanied him through many phases of life, including service in the Peace Corps in Nepal, bus commutes, late-night security shifts at a hotel, and volunteer work at a domestic violence shelter. His tastes spanned presidential biographies, science fiction, and literary classics, with a personal rule to finish any book he started. After his passing, his daughter rediscovered the lists and, with a family friend, created a website and memorial bookmarks to share the collection with others.
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