Attempts at Reply

scribnerbooks:

“A book is not company. We engage with it, argue with it, carry it around in our pockets and minds, are haunted by memories of it for years. But it doesn’t argue back, doesn’t engage, never inquires how our day has been, gives only what it wishes. Books are selfish. Everything, every word, is on their terms.

That’s what I like about them.”

—Rick Gekoski, writing in the Guardian

You say potato, we say…

The funny thing is, my Nook cover says,”A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.” Either way, books are friends.