Reading

I like having this calendar on my desk. For each month there is an art work depicting women reading (no kindle so far) and a quotation.
 
For instance, ‘We raked books off the shelves by the dozen and hauled them along on picnics, to haylofts, up oak trees, to bath, and to bed. The one terrifying possibility was to find oneself without a book (Kathleen Norris, American essayist).
 
I remember that feeling, but I’m very much afraid the mobile phone has replaced books as the thing we can’t bear to be without..