It was an emergency! " Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth, " Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite, " he declared.. Brandon Mull
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"It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera.

And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?"You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious."I just lost my appetite," he declared...I'm sorry, Grandma, but no one else seems to care about the need to save Fablehaven. Do you know how many times I've had to drag people away from the library? As if they didn't have enough to do! They're already bored out of their minds with all their school work and then you want them to come spend their time reading!And what makes you think that if they opened up that book that they would be able to read it? Reading is hard work.

You had no idea that it was going to be this hard for me!I know! I know! But it's the only way out of this place!

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