“What I (re)discovered in reading The Salt Stained Book was the absolute joy of literally losing oneself in a good story. As a child I suspect our identities, prejudices and class consciousness are less developed or at least less rigid and we are more open to simply ‘enjoy’ a book without bringing these things to it and with SSB I experienced that feeling for the first time in a long time. I completely lost myself in the story. Time passed without me noticing and I did not exist. Only the world of the story existed. The world, and I, stood outside of time for quite some hours. I believe that this is the best that reading a book can give a person.”