There's a joke among literature lovers that the act of reading a book is just staring at a piece of dead tree and hallucinating. Is that image a little unsettling? Sure. Is it also kind of hilarious? Of course. What's really fascinating about enjoying a good book is that your experience of it — the characters, the places, how every little thing looks, smells, tastes and feels — is completely unique to you. Even a movie adaptation is just one peek into a world that exists in a million different forms in a million different minds. How delightful then, that we can bond with others over stories that spin out so differently for each of us.
