" For those who are afflicted with book lust, those for whom reading is more than information or escape, the road to our passion is quite simple, paved merely by the presence of the printed matter.
It's a common story; fill in your own blanks:
I was -- years old when I happened on a novel called --, and within six months I had read every other book by the writer known as --. "

― Lewis Buzbee , The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History