2020 was an excellent year for escapism. It was also a year that demanded a lot of hard looks and reexamination and which called for a good measure of comfort thrown in. In other words, 2020 was a good year for reading, and I did … Continue reading The 2020 Read List – Nonfiction
I doubt it will come as a surprise when I tell you that in 2020 I beat my previous records for both number of books and number of pages read in a year. I had hoped it would be the year I made it to … Continue reading The 2020 Read List – Fiction
2019 was my best reading year (in terms of both total number of books read and total page count) since I started tracking my reading! I owe that success in no small part to two deep dives I took: one at the beginning of the … Continue reading The 2019 Read List
I have always been an avid reader, and as I’ve gotten older, I’ve also become more interested in honing my physical collection of books into a satisfying and functional library. (Someday I am going to have a designated library in my home, and when that … Continue reading The 2018 ‘Read’ List
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. -C.S. Lewis What a whirlwind of a year it has been! An entire eight months and more since I actually posted anything here. It has been a year I have physically spent … Continue reading On Rereading
A little boy was sitting in the corner of a railway carriage looking out at the rain, which was splashing against the windows and blotching downward in an ugly, dirty way. He was not the only person in the carriage, but the others were strangers … Continue reading Green Knowe
“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.” -J.K. Rowling As the weather starts to change in September, I do think of Salem and Hocus Pocus, but I also usually experience a sincere urge to … Continue reading Harry Potter (and the Wizarding World of)
The last weekend in June is one of my favorite weekends of the year. It is the weekend upon which I completely ignore all my minimalist impulses and hasten to a warehouse in Somerville to increase the size of my library at the Harvard Book … Continue reading Cambridge Stops: The Harvard Book Store
I Digress 