Bit-O-Stead

Just as Wheelie offers this jaw-breaking confection in Rebecca Stead's Newbery winner When You Reach Me, so I'm offering a few bits too. (Mine are far less cavity-inducing though)

"For me, as a kid, a book was a very private world," she said. "I didn't like talking about books with other people very much because it almost felt like I didn't want other people to be in that world with me."

From The Book Club With Just One Member

I believe–and this is not an original idea from me–that really...