Reblogged from vintageanchorbooks
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Home is where your books are.



“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own.”
—Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot
an Ending was one...my favorite recent books.
I disagree about “never your own.” Some books do provide resonance or insight that allows a person