Grant Shellen

"My view is that the right book has to reach you at the right time, and no person can be reached by every book. Literature is supposed to be beautiful and/or necessary—so if at a given time you don’t either enjoy or need a certain book, then you should read something else, and not feel guilty about it."

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I say this all the time! Not this whole statement! But the general sentiment! Don’t like that book? Stop reading it! Don’t like wine? Go back to margaritas! Don’t like periods? Replace them all with exclamation points!

Elif Baufman in Tom Perrotta, Francine Prose, and others on “great books” that aren’t great. - By Juliet Lapidos - Slate Magazine (via housingworksbookstore)

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