December 31, 2011
Having this conversation several times - "Can you recommend a book?" "How about Room?" "No, I can't/don't want to/won't read that." - has made me think about the books we don't read. Not the books we don't read because we don't like the author or genre, like I don't read Don DeLillo or science fiction, but the books we don't read because we don't want to go there.
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