A Burning: Good Books Are Hard to Read

Good books – even as they are arresting – are often hard to read. This is not because they are difficult in themselves so much because oftheir content. Human societies are callous and viscous; cruelty, greed, and selfishnessaremanifest across the world, and one purpose of stories is topicture this layout. This makes for hard truths, often, and this is what I mean when I say