This German word, 'lesewut', is the other end of the spectrum from the Japanese word 'tsundoku'
#booksky
Marie-Anne
Just one more page, we say.
Which becomes a chapter.
Which becomes another.
Then the promise of “just one more” quietly dissolves.
Suddenly, the evening has slipped away, spent in another world.
The Germans have a word for that:
Lesewut.
#words #reading
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