"You start to read that stuff and it makes you think, 'Am I overrated?
"Then suddenly you stop, you see something else, then you forget Austerlitz and you start to read that other thing, but with this" — he tapped the table — "you won't do that.
"I started to read everything that Bishop wrote and that was written about her, and I was fascinated".
I sat down, took out my notebook, grabbed one of the stapled copies from the pile, and started to read, as that was what all the others were doing.
As soon as I started to read it, I felt that sense of excitement, of recognition that here was a real writer.
Consumer Price Indexes for Selected Items and Groups, 1970-2009," I started to read a new book that helped me think about why I might have become enchanted by a semidefunct reference book: "The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood," by James Gleick.
He had started to read every book that he could find about near-death experiences and about lightning strikes.
A few months earlier, he and his girlfriend, Vanessa Nadal, who has since become his wife, had been on vacation in Mexico, and while bobbing in the pool on an inflatable lounger he started to read a book that he had bought on impulse: Ron Chernow's eight-hundred-page biography of Alexander Hamilton.
Soon after it is unclear when, exactly Akhila started to read books and watch videos that helped her understand Islam.
I even started to read only material on websites that were along the same line as mine.
