Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Watching the PBS Great American Read, they're discussing all the favorites that they've put together.

The best part of this thing is ditching any idea of 'best' or 'quality', whatever that means or doesn't. They're just talking about what people love about the stories.

The ones you like, the ones you don't (yes that one and that one and that one too). The point here is always that, whatever an abstract view of a book is, what some call good or bad or what have you, is meaningless.

Any story out there is someone's favorite, or maybe not even favorite, it can still be a well-loved story that gets pulled down from the shelf on occasion and revisited.

That's touching someone, and that's all that a story needs for reason to exist. What happens when I'm sitting down and enjoying the writing of it, I put it out there and cross my fingers that there await a special group who've never known that the story I send winging out there is just the one they need.

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