blaming the road for my own riding of the brakes. There’s a balance to be kept here, and it varies from one reading experience to another. Some books require a lot of commentary, others only a little; and then there are those that we really shouldn’t read with pencil in hand at all. Lord help the person who annotates a Harry Potter book or the latest John Grisham. In books of that kind momentum is not to be squandered.*
