I recently saw a meme containing the caption, “My life is a series of things keeping me from reading my book.” Sometimes, I must admit, I feel like this. Though when I look over the 120+ books I have read this year, I’ve clearly managed to read somehow. My identification with that meme says muchContinue reading “A year in books: 2023”
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Book Travellers: For Italo Calvino
Italo, I have often had this dream: A bookshop winds on spiral stairs, with shelves Inviting eager eyes to search for names And spines which lie, “Yes, I am here; it’s me.” Italo, in my dream it always seems That though my search for perfect books will delve Across each shelf, the titles play theseContinue reading “Book Travellers: For Italo Calvino”
The Consolations of Writing 