Which of the following passages effectively paraphrases the excerpt below? Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on
our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they
became chapters in it themselves. How could it be any different?
—Anne Fadiman, "Preface," Ex Libris. Confessions of a Common
Reader (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998).
A. Books accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and
underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), and they
became chapters in our lives themselves.
B. Books told a lot about our lives and what has happened during our
lives.
C. Books wrote our life story.
D. Books could not be any different; they wrote our life story.