You can see that we are already well into 2024, but I wanted to share my favorite reads of 2023. Some are independently published books and we all know those can use all the word-of-mouth possible! My reading numbers have...
This might sound trite, or too on-the-nose, but reading
Flights, Olga Tokarczuk’s unique book about many things under the umbrella of “travel”
is like taking a journey. The best kind of travel journey, where you meander
down...
I didn’t know much about The Natural, except that it
was a movie I hadn’t seen starring Robert Redford, and that some consider the
book, written by Bernard Malamud and published in 1952, the quintessential,
literary baseball...
My second read for the Summer of Summer reading project is Seating
Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead. In this story, the Van Meters have
gathered for the marriage of their eldest daughter, Daphne, who is well bred
and educated...
The back cover copy on this 1975 novel claims that it "distills the essence of the summer - it's sunlight and storms - into twenty-two crystalline vignettes." And that it does. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson centers on...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
