Vielleicht gefällt dir das
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.
Once I start reading a book like that, I start to catch myself narrating my thoughts in the same style. Reading a book set in London? Britishisms start popping up in my mental vocabulary. Reading poetry? My everyday observations of life become much more flowery (sadly, it doesn’t actually gift me with the poet’s talent). There’s nothing like realizing that your brain has gone into an involved, noir-inspired description of you running a bath for yourself.
The perfectness of reading is when a book hits you and you hit it and during those hours you are completed in a way you have never been before.
The ‘you’ you were when you started the book is no longer; you are changed forever after; you become somehow denser, more solid and yet clearer and cleaner and more organized in your heart and mind at the same time.
Author and chef Gabrielle Hamilton, to NYT Book Review (via camewiththeframe)
That’s what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It’s geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.
Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (via wordsnquotes)
Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes —characters even— caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
That’s what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you on to another book, and another bit there will lead you on to a third book. It’s geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (via negative-pessimist)
A book is something personal and reading it is a journey. But reading it, barely opening it and constantly worrying about bending the spine or something, is a pointless struggle. It’s just paper. Story is what’s important.
my brother being smart for once (via obsessivebibliophile)
Read in bed on sleep-in days. Nothing makes a lazy day like staying in your bed for an extra hour or two reading a book. And if you were reading before bed it’ll be right there waiting for you. Sometimes I read for an hour and then go back to sleep, it’s ridiculously decadent.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Richard McKenna, New Eyes for Old: Nonfiction Writings
(via bird-out-of-water)
(via bird-out-of-water)
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Richard McKenna, New Eyes for Old: Nonfiction Writings
(via bird-out-of-water)
(via bird-out-of-water)
enchantedbook