Alice Hoffman: "Rumah kami penuh dengan buku-buku di dapur, di bawah t...

"Rumah kami penuh dengan buku-buku di dapur, di bawah tempat tidur, terselip di antara bantal sofa - terlalu banyak baginya untuk diselesaikan. Kurasa aku berpikir jika nenekku tetap mempertahankan minatnya, dia tidak akan mati; dia harus tinggal di sekitar untuk menyelesaikan buku yang sangat dia sukai. "Aku harus sampai di dasar yang satu ini," katanya, seolah-olah sebuah buku tidak berbeda dengan kolam atau danau. Saya pikir dia akan terus membaca selamanya tetapi tidak berhasil seperti itu."

--- Alice Hoffman

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Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.