/lit/ - Literature

Myself only - and sometimes to my nephews when they ask me to.

>>19207917
I read so I can have something to talk about when I finally make friends.

I've always liked to read, so you might say I read for my own satisfaction and leave it at that, though then I didn't consider myself a reader. Not seriously, anyway. That distinction came with Sophie. She was not really pretty, but she was the first girl I knew to be smarter than I was, and at the time, young as I was, that was enough to drive me mad. That was enough that every time I heard her voice I felt the sounds of mass and the hymm of God about my mind, and she knew it, too. She knew it, for I could see that mischief in her smile and too the way she lent herself to me: how she leaned herself toward me cross our desks like that was the only thing to keep her from glad surrender. And I was thrilled, always I was thrilled to be near her because her mind was doubly vast and she had two years on mine. She may have loved me, too, the way I did her, but it is not worth the thinking now. She told me once "the duality of man," and that, to her, was what it meant. "Anna Karenina," her favorite novel, and too the key to knowing her. And I read, and she laughed. And she laughed for my struggle because in truth it was the hardest thing I'd ever read, and I did not yet understand what kind of spell would be cast on me by that old Russian whose words could move like nothing else. Like nothing else that Jesus did or any thought of her could do. And her voice, it was like lead to me. One day I found the world was grey, it was the same that Anna killed herself. I screwed it up, I think, somehow. Some way, I think, involving sex. I don't remember awful well. That time for me was a difficult time, and on those thoughts I do not dwell. I do not dwell, but I remember that was the day I discovered the art. The art in words. That was the day I began to read and it was for her. For love of her.

>>19207917
For Christ mainly.
I have dropped most exciting or fictional literature. I will from now on maybe only read a few Japanese picture books in my life.

>>19208275
based

>>19207917
Fumika is bae. Love bookworm waifus so much, one of the big reasons I love Rin Shima and unironically want a gf like her.

>>19207917
For Riko, of course.

>>19208275
>For Christ mainly.
>I have dropped most exciting or fictional literature. I will from now on maybe only read a few Japanese picture books in my life.

my queen v_v that im lost from v_v

>>19208275
What are some Christian Japanese cartoon books?

>>19209280
Naruto, Berserk, One Piece, Oyasumi Punpun are my favorites.

>>19208024
this chick's head must be MASSIVE, look at the distance from the chin to the scalp

>>19208051
Uhh did you write this anon?? Well done
>>19207917
Really silly question. There is no-one to read for except oneself. But to be interesting I will say not myself but my Self.

>>19208922
Basado

>>19209405
Maybe that's why she's crying. She is already insecure about her big head, you don't need to rub it in...

>>19207917
>For whom'st do you read?
For myself.

>>19209320
you are a disgrace

>>19208922
May I introduce you to:

>>19211907
What show?

>>19212107
Read or Die