I'm moving house at the moment and I'm losing a lot of books. And a lot of people are shocked. “You're giving away your books? Oh I just couldn't.”
The same sort of response greets me when I tell people that I scrawl in the margins of books, underline words, draw big circles around salient paragraphs… “You what?”
At a reading once, a woman said to me, “That's wicked and disgusting. Like