I’m sure you’ve heard the proverbial saying, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” Often misattributed to Aristotle, this expression usually refers to teamwork and how things function better together than they do as individual pieces. I like to think of my relationship to literature in the same way. And you should too — it really changes the way you read, and it’s so gratifying! I think our life stories are made much more fun and interesting when we understand that the sum of all the books we’ve been enriched by is what makes the whole of our lives greater.