My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me. (Hisham Matar)

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.

Hisham Matar

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