“Through experience, the girl has learned to keep her books out of his reach.

Her mother does not believe in fiction: ‘So many complications, so much passionate love in those novels,’ she tells her daughter. ‘In real life, people have other things on their minds…’

Now, stretched out in the muffled bed, holding the treasured book in both hands and propping it up on her stomach, she has established not only her own space but her own measure of time.”
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#AHistoryOfReading Chapter: Private Reading