on reading - diane setterfield

There is something about words.  In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take
you prisoner.  Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when
you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood,
numb your thoughts.  Inside you they work their magic.

- Diane Setterfield

By Daniela Tieni

on reading - diane setterfield

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through
the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book
before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the
previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your
clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

- Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

By Taho