For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
Interpretation
Reading should be an enjoyable experience rather than a complex task focused solely on knowledge or puzzles.
Roberto Bolano emphasizes the pleasure derived from reading, suggesting that it should be an enjoyable activity rather than just a means to acquire knowledge or solve intellectual challenges. This perspective highlights the importance of finding joy in literature, viewing reading as an experience that enriches our lives through pleasure rather than solely through its educational value.
In practice
In a book club meeting, to encourage members to enjoy reading for fun rather than just for analysis.
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. “You’re my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I’m going to keep you with me forever. And one day I’ll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.
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