Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read


Quote from the book I was telling you all about at the book club--by Pierre Bayard:

The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is a traversal of books that a good reader engages in-a reader who knows that every book is the bearer of part of himself and can give him access to it, if only he has the wisdom not to end his journey there.
(pg. 178)