Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn’t have to concentrate at all. You could space...

There she stood. Dark circles ringed her eyes. Her face was pale, almost snow-white. She probably hadn’t slept, either. She was still wearing the same dress. Her hair looked like a bomb had gone off....

When we were little kids, ‘friend’ wasn’t a verb. You didn’t ‘friend’ someone. You had friends. It was only a noun. It didn’t multitask. It was a simpler time, Hen.

I’m sorry, Hen. I still have feelings for you. It’s just that my band needs a real bass player now. We’re not a joke band anymore. Okay, sweetie?’That was how Petra Dostoyevsky fired me.