"It seems as good a place to begin as any." She shrugs and gently takes the books from his arms, her hands gently making their way between his and the books before she pulls them away from his grip and into her own. "Do you mind if I read alongside you?" It's not that she doesn't have a place to go to read them, but after speaking about such terrible things in her past, she finds she'd rather be close to someone right now.