“I’m merely me, subject to a hundred and one confinements. I am limited to my race, gender, species, nationality, locus, experience, point of view. I was born when I was born and when I die that’ll be that–and in the brief time between my head can reach only so far. Reading, though, removes every limitation. Reading sets me free.
When I sit in a quiet place and traverse a printed page I can go anywhere, meet anyone, see anything. Last week John P. Marquand took me through the drawing rooms and gentlemen’s clubs of nineteenth century Boston, this week Alan Furst has me on a tramp steamer in the Mediterranean on a secret mission in the early days of World War II.
Next week I don’t know where I’ll be… but it will be somewhere new and exciting and instructive and I can’t wait to go. ”
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Here’s a thrill! When you make a donation to Raising A Reader MA by June 10, your gift will be tripled!
- Make a gift of at least $10 to receive a complimentary copy of our e-book (insert book title here). This book will compile all of the responses we receive in the “2013 Share the Thrill of Reading” campaign.
Special thanks to the Massachusetts Literacy Foundation for their support of this campaign.
