I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission.
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.
Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.
Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn't happen with a play. Even performances are different every night.
I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings!
Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.
We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.
I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
