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...
It's that time again! Every summer for many years, I have chosen a stack of books to tackle over the warmer and in theory, less busy, months. I choose books around a theme. I have spent summers reading books about trees, books...
"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
