I Read A Novel

Which is really about all you could do with one, eh?

Not alone in this. All over the world there are people who read books. They are catered for by people who write them, publish them, and stock them in shops and libraries. Don’t think all the action takes place on a lighted screen…a great deal of the world’s thought uses paper.

The books I fish out of the local libraries are stocked there by librarians, who are largely of the female persuasion. As a consequence, many of the works are what appeal to them, and would appeal to other females. I would say ladies, but some of the novels were not written by, nor evidently intended, for the better classes. How they get past the prim minders is another question that I do not propose to either pose or answer. I value my head.

A current anthology features a…