I have just read “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane
Setterfield. A most enjoyable book to
begin my reading again. The heroine’s
father owns a bookshop and reading forms both the background and the foreground
to her life. Asked to write the
biography of a reclusive author she finds it impossible to resist the request
and becomes more and more absorbed in the author’s life and its remarkable
revelations. I thoroughly recommend it.
“Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to
read the letter. (I never read without
making sure I am in a secure position. I
have been liked this ever since the age of seven when, sitting on a high wall
and reading The Water Babies, I
was so seduced by the descriptions of underwater life that I unconsciously
relaxed my muscles. Instead of being
held buoyant by the water that so vividly surrounded me in my mind, I plummeted
to the ground and knocked myself out. I
can still feel the scar under my fringe now.
Reading can be dangerous.)”
“For me, to see is to read. It has always been that way.”
Sounds a good book! Reading can be dangerous, indeed... just think of all those people who go about in town, reading messages on their mobile phones while walking into lamp posts and onto busy roads!
ReplyDeleteLoved that book, hated her next one.
ReplyDeleteI'm enjoying her next one but it is quite a different style of story.
Delete"To see is to read" -- yes, that.
ReplyDeleteI've read that one and remember liking it although I can't recall any details. Checking my book list that I keep on my PC I find that I read it back in 2009 and in Swedish. So no wonder if my memory is a bit blurry...
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