What I've Finished Reading

It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking, or looking on, or sex. . . They do not habitually elaborate on the equally intense pleasure of reading.
--A. S. Byatt, PossessionGrave-robbing! Long-lost heirs! The wrath of the heavens and the vengeance ( Read more... )