{"text":"Don't you ever get tired of reading?' she asked. 'You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women, you're supposed to make conversation?' she added; her half smile was perhaps meant to be ironic, though to Amedeo, who at that moment would have paid anything rather than give up his novel, it seemed downright threatening.","author":"Italo Calvino","tags":["bad-idea","lectophilia","mixed-marriages-never-work","reading","relationship-nightmare","run-away"],"id":852,"author_id":"Italo+Calvino"}