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A Page Break reading retreat in New York’s Catskill Mountains For James Lackington, an 18th century British shoemaker turned bookseller, one good reason to marry was to secure a reading partner. “I was in raptures with the bare thoughts of having a woman to read with, and also to read to me,” he wrote in his memoir. In Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1866 novel, Wives and Daughters, the Hollingford Book Society was “the centre of news and gossip, the club, as it were, of the little town.” Over the past few years, reading retreats—where groups of (mostly) women gather at a country house or hotel to work through their personal reading lists in silence—have sprung up across the US and the UK. …
摘自《彭博商业周刊》(Bloomberg Businessweek)2026年5月刊,Alice Robb。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。