The Book Basement

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Reading helped build self-confidence, lessening cultural isolation, building a sense of community and fostering increased communication skills.