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The authors appear to see sci-fi and fantasy as near synonyms

I have not given up on this book. I am committing to complete it before the year ends.

Dorothy Sayers claimed that when we read a work of literature, "it is as though a light were turned on us. We say, 'Ah! I recognise that!'... I can possess and take hold of it and make it my own, and turn it into a source of knowledge and strength."

Literature is a triumph of the imagination.
-Joseph Addison

I enjoyed this chapter especially. I recognize the joys of literature in my own life.

When working in bookstores, he sees browsers who display "a need to keep getting back to" the reading state, which "they know and... seek." What they want, concludes Birkerts, "is a vehicle that will bear them off to the reading state."

Reading literature refreshes you and transports you to a faraway place.

I didn’t finish this book in time for my book club discussion of it last night, but I’d like to finish it. It sure led to some great discussion!