The First One

This is the first post of this blog. A quick summary of the primary purpose of this website: Everyone reads books differently. We all have different life experiences and knowledge bases which we use to interpret the words printed on the page. Take the sentence: "Mark sat down on the table and began to write." We all have a different image of what a table is. Some would see a large dining room table, some might envision a cramped card table in a dusty apartment. Some might imagine a picnic table in the backyard. Every sentence of every piece of literature is interpreted just a little bit differently in each person's mind. Books are not movies or TV where everything is laid out for you. It takes more work. Sometimes a little bit more work, sometimes a great deal of work. This is an attempt to examine that work in detail. You don't have to have read the book in some cases, some of the posts will have enough explanation to stand on their own. Others you might not understand what's going on until you've read the book. The best thing to do is to pick up the book along with me and read together.