She looked at the paperback, then back at him. \u2018Sounds like a lot of work for a rainy Friday.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018You\u2019re right, it is work,\u2019 he admitted, a sparkle of wit in his eyes. \u2018But it\u2019s one of the best kinds. A want<\/em> is fleeting. You satisfy it, and twenty minutes later, you\u2019re looking for the next thing to click on. But a read? A true read, like a true need,<\/em> stays with you. It changes the shape of your brain, word by word.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n The woman was silent for a moment, the steady drumbeat of the rain filling the silence that settled between them. She looked at her smartphone, glowing with notifications and endless streams of content, and suddenly it felt uncomfortably overheated in her hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018What\u2019s it about anyway?\u2019 she eventually asked, nodding towards the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The man opened the paperback to Chapter One. \u2018Why don\u2019t I start from the beginning, and you can see for yourself?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n She leaned back against the sofa cushions, crossing her arms, her phone forgotten on the coffee table. \u2018Alright. Fire away.\u2019 He cleared his throat, and as his voice filled the room, the walls of the flat felt ready to expand, dissolving into the cobblestone streets and foggy mornings of a world built entirely of words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" She looked at her smartphone, glowing with notifications and endless streams of content, and suddenly it felt uncomfortably overheated in her hand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[64,13],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[579],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experimental-prose","category-trails"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t