I think we've establish the book you do not want to read right now is Italo Calvino's "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler." What kind of books do you really want to read right now?
Ludmilla, the Other Reader, has very specific (and constantly changing) requirements for the kind of book she really wants to read. She doesn't concentrate on types of plots (a mystery, a western, a political thriller, a historical romance) but the sensations the writing arouses:
"The novel I would most like to read at this moment should have as its driving force only the desire to narrate, to pile stories on stories, without trying to impose a philosophy of life on you, simply allowing you to observe its own growth, like a tree, an entangling, as if of braches and leaves."
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"I like books where all the mysteries and the anguish pass through a precise and cold mind, without shadows, like the mind of a chessplayer."
Tell me about the book you want to be reading right now -- about the plot, or the feeling you get while reading it, or the ideas you want it to uncover, or the sensations you want it to evoke. And have you ever encountered a book that does all that you require? If so, what is it? And do you require different things of different books at different times?
