Cirrus@Austlit

'There is magic in reading, made possible by writers. Books transport you to a different environment, where worlds emerge and time stands still—or perhaps even leaps forward or steps back. As a young reader with your nose constantly buried in a book, you may remember missing the call for dinner or ‘forgetting’ to finish your algebra homework. As an adult, perhaps finishing the next chapter of Murakami is more important than falling asleep before midnight and sporting dark eyes the next day. The consequences don’t matter. Not then, or now. Because you are a romantic, and believe that stories provide the key to happiness.' (Introduction)