Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster)'s Blog Posts Tagged 'dracula' (1)

Listen, Jena, after that great lunch you whipped up yesterday I showed your brother my newly organized library and talked our way into the idea that books and stories make places and experiences immeasurably better.

Phrases like “those who can’t do teach” and “get your nose out of a book” suggest  that reading about some exciting place is a poor or cowardly man’s way of seeing it for himself. The idea there is that reading is a poor imitation of actual experience.

I’m…