I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

by Anne Bogel

S. Lewis once wrote, “Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’”

Envy is a deadly sin, but bookshelf envy has proven to be a source of inspiration.

The harder I push a book on a reader, the less likely she is to read it.

Old books, like old friends, are good for the soul.

A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It’s not the same book, and we’re not the same reader.