Join up the dots that you didn't even know were there

From Nick Hornby in More Baths, Less Talking. He speaks revealingly to the life and mind of a bibliophile with useful observations along the way.

And so a lot of adult life -- if your hunger and curiosity haven't been squelched by your education -- is learning to join up the dots that you didn't even know were there.

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Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.