With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.
What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.
