Why Do We Read Books?

Reading and the Functioning of Democracy

Nazi book burnings. (May 10, 1933). In Wikipedia.

I watched the film Shadowlands on BBC1 very recently with the great Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. They play C.S. Lewis and Joy Gresham. Lewis the writer and creator of the Narnia stories and a seemingly confirmed bachelor and Professor at Oxford meets Joy a married mother of two boys from America. She is a poet in a bad marriage. They correspond with…