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275 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 22, 2019
Inside Pergamon's library, ghost-like figures danced all around her, waltzing through the book-laden shelves. The audience - a group of children sitting with rapt attention on a carpet- had their eyes glued to the phantom married couple. Light as characters, translucent as dreams, husband and wife faded away as the young woman closed the volume. The room broke into a round of applause, dispersing the tale's illusion completely.The book was written beautifully, but it is clear in some parts that it was translated, so I would love to reread it in French, as it was originally written. The above-mentioned quote reminds me of the iconic scene in Anastasia, overall the book has beautiful quotes about books, reading, and beauty of literature and written as well as spoken words, such as:
Sometimes, all it tool was one word to start the never-ending cycle of belles-lettres.
Ripping sentences out of books might just be worse than breathing fire. To unstick words was to steal them, and oral reading was but a guilty pleasure.
"I don't read to escape reality, but because books make human thoughts clear; they take the muddled, disjointed and unwelcome ideas and make them apprehensible."