Equally as dumb, it doesn't occur to Ness that people might not like to readβshe grew up in a library, liking books has never been a question to her.
"Nothing to do but the books, you mean," a gentle reminder, because obviously Clarisse must have just taken those as a given. Perhaps she reads very quickly, and expects that Ness has finished making her way through the archives already. "I read quickly, it's true, but taking notes at the same time has drawn out some of the texts beyond what time I might have spent on them otherwise. I still have quite a few to go before I'm satisfied I've learned enough not to make a fool of myself outside the Gallows."
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Equally as dumb, it doesn't occur to Ness that people might not like to readβshe grew up in a library, liking books has never been a question to her.
"Nothing to do but the books, you mean," a gentle reminder, because obviously Clarisse must have just taken those as a given. Perhaps she reads very quickly, and expects that Ness has finished making her way through the archives already. "I read quickly, it's true, but taking notes at the same time has drawn out some of the texts beyond what time I might have spent on them otherwise. I still have quite a few to go before I'm satisfied I've learned enough not to make a fool of myself outside the Gallows."