Laura’s Reviews > Bibliophobia > Status Update

“Part of my fate as a greedy, acquisitive reader is that I can never escape the overbearing presence of books, whether in the mind or in the shelf.
I wonder if, without them, I’d have any thoughts at all. Or if I’d be anyone at all.

Reading was an escapism of a kind, but not in the conventional sense. It was a way to get far away from my life, and to feel not better, but simply so different.”