BOOKS

A home without books is like a body without soul.
Cicero

Dodicilibri, or twelve books for twelve months. This is the motto of the group of readers to whom Marta Scimè opens the doors of her home once a month. Countering those who consider books as objects threatened by extinction, Marta offers tea, a glass of wine and the comfort of her home to people who share the same passion for reading. Each meeting reveals the positive effects of dialogue, exchange of opinions and emotions: a book is not just the telling of a story. As author Massimo Recalcati says, True reading requires – even before the alert competence of our mind, which is never sufficient in itself – the presence of our heart. And if … a book is like a sea, isn’t a book’s essence that of always being open? Like the sea, a book is an extraordinary representation of that which is Open. It opens and closes the world.