Who Says You’re Reading Less?
My husband worries that you’re not reading books. He worries because he’d like to be writing books. As a Washington newspaper correspondent, he’s an endangered species because everybody knows you’re reading fewer newspapers — and shorter stories — though not less news. So here he is in the age of tweets, with many more words still in his computer. Books are his hope of last resort — if only you’ll read them.
But you’re not, according to the agents and publishers he’s negotiated with in writing three books and publishing, so far, two.
I hope you’ll help me prove them wrong, for all our sakes.
If you’d sworn off books, why would there be more books in the world than ever before?
Once upon a time, books were scarce. Only a very few, very special people ever saw a book, for they were made one by one, by hand. Because they were so rare, they were very beautiful, and scribes and illuminators could devote years of their lives to copying a single book.