Jaelin Jones’s Reviews > If on a Winter's Night a Traveler > Status Update

"Listening to someone read aloud is very different from reading in silence. When you read, you can stop or skip sentences: you are the one who sets the pace. When someone else is reading, it is difficult to make your attention coincide with the tempo of his reading: the voice goes either too fast or too slow."

“To read a book, to love a person, it is necessary to be other than that book and that person, and we read in order to overcome our otherness.”
- Peter Washington, Introduction