Nicola's Book Club - Another Way to Travel the World
She loved the feel of books, their integrity as objects. The wing-plan of them, the scent and warmth of paper. She loved the relative stiffness of the cover and the sentience of settled print. Random flicking of pages, inscriptions, dog-ears. She loved – though it was a sin – to see books left open upside down, their bird shape accentuated in the keeping of a page.
- an extract from "Dreams of Speaking" by Gail Jones (Australia, born 1955)
