I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head,what are we reading it for? we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone,like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.