Today’s questioned was suggested by Janet:
I’ve seen this quotation in several places lately. It’s from Sven Birkerts’ ‘The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age’:
“To read, when one does so of one’s own free will, is to make a volitional statement, to cast a vote; it is to posit an elsewhere and set off toward it. And like any traveling, reading is at once a movement and a comment of sorts about the place one has left. To open a book voluntarily is at some level to remark the insufficiency either of one’s life or one’s orientation toward it.”
To what extent does this describe you?
I do so love to read. I am truly an unapologetic bibliophile. I do not believe the extent of my love of reading rests solely on the “insufficiency” of my life nor do I feel it is a reflection of my “insufficiency” to my orientation in life. I read because I yearn for knowledge. I crave the beautiful prose and the places I can be drawn into that I would not otherwise have been able to travel, especially in my beloved historical fiction novels. I am drawn to books, as a sensory reader, I crave the feel of the pages, the smell of the books, the words o the crisp pages, for me the entire experience is pure bliss.
Anyone can play along each Thursday with Booking Through Thursday.
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