On Villette

A gorgeous post by Roo – one of my favorite bloggers – about the book Villette and how it came to her, and what it means to her. There’s something about her writing that kind of … I don’t know … it’s an experience that she is able to express with perfect clarity, so that you, the reader, are right there with her. This post is an amazing story about a moment when a book literally grabs you – and SAVES you. I’ve had that experience before, but I don’t think I’ve ever written it so clearly:

I settled into a corner table with my bagel, and took Villette out of my bag for company. The story lured me in almost immediately, and I realized with a strange clarity that nothing I was likely to do at work that day would be as important to me, as soul-saving to me, as finishing it then and there. I called in sick, then went back to my book.

Gorgeous. Now I’m trying to think, from my own life, when a book has grabbed me that hard …

Go read the whole thing!!