«Against that nothingness that tries to pierce our hearts to become the owner of our thoughts and our souls, we proclaim the irreplaceable value of reading. His imperious need in our lives ».

What else is reading but to conjure the emptiness of nothing? What but to let ourselves be inhabited by words, by eternal curiosity, by the constant desire to know about ourselves through others and others?
That is the main idea that runs through this apparently small book, but almost infinite in its ability to show us the multiplicity of the reading universe: the today and yesterday of reading. His ancestral conquests, along with the exciting reading challenges of our contemporaneity.
The old — and always new — stories, alongside the revealing findings of reading neuroscience. The constant demand for a free, critical, participatory, committed, creative reading.
Reading against nothing is the sincere testimony of someone who, like its author, has dedicated his life to the reading cause.
Read like someone who loves.
Read like who feels.
Read like someone who dreams.
Read like someone who breathes.