I like Anatole Broyard take on reading and the
responsibility we have as readers to be as much apart of the book as the
writer. In “The Price of Reading
Is Eternal Vigilance” Broyard talks about how we separate ourselves from a book
and put them above us in different ways.
It is up to the reader to become apart of the story just like in The
Never Ending Story, where the boy becomes apart of the story and its up to him
to save the characters from disappearing.
For me, it is always so sad to end a good book. I sit and wonder what the characters
are doing after the final chapter.
I imagine where they are and I wish the story could go on forever. What I feel Broyard is trying to convey
is that through a good book, or a bad one, if we allow ourselves to transcend
through the words and into the story, we will connect once again to all that we
really are “One.”
Very nice response, Taryn. I think you took away an important aspect of the reading- that we lose something really important about the process of reading when we, as you say, "separate ourselves from the book." Your blog is looking great so far!
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