Who Reads says What's Read!

No two persons ever read the same book.
–Edmund Wilson
Discussions at various book clubs about my books and other authors' books have often confounded me. A reader may make an observation about a character or the plot of a book that I have read, that is a surprise; well, to be truthful, often the observation astonishes me. I did not see that trait in the character, or that was not the important part of the plot!

Even when my own books are discussed by members of any group, I listen to the reader speaking and perhaps stating firmly what I must have been thinking about when I wrote a chapter. Better yet, my characters are often compared to people who exist in my personal life, when that comparison never entered my brain as I was writing.

I am not complaining nor am I criticizing. That is the prerogative of the reader of fiction. Not even the author may take offense. The story is the story not just the author's story. The story, once published, now belongs to the interpretation of every reader.

I forward my blessings to all fiction readers and my wishes that they read more, interpret more, and share their ideas.

K. B. Pellegrino