Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. {{U}}Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author’s or even goes be-yond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.{{/U}} {{U}}Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city.Although they are separate, together they all add up to something; they are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times.{{/U}} {{U}}Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you "ought" to read, you probably won’t have fun. {{/U}}But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time--and if you become as a result of reading, better, wiser, or more gentle, you won’t have suffered during the process.