Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!

If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes

It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.