This week got away from me and although I've been reading The Overstory (239 pages in now), I won't be giving an update this week. Instead, enjoy this lovely poem, which should hold you over quite nicely until next Friday,...
Here’s the trouble I’m having with The Overstory (which isn’t
really much of a trouble at all): it isn’t a fast read. Each story/chapter
feels like a place to stop and think, and I also take breaks while reading to look...
Reader, I ain’t gonna lie—I haven’t made much progress this
week on The Overstory. But I plan to, soon, and even though I didn't get many pages
read, I’ve been thinking about the book nevertheless, and about trees,
and...
Interspersed throughout Jessica Francis Kane’s new novel,
Rules for Visiting, are lovely drawings of trees, like this one of the yew. The
drawings are by Edward Carey and in the book, they represent “tree sheets”
given...
"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
