A friend recently asked me why I read books. It’s a deceptively simple question, and my knee-jerk response was equally simple: to learn about the world around me. But I think the real reasons I read books are much deeper than that. I read to learn about the world around me, yes, but also aboutContinue reading “On reading”
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What We Carry: 2021 book list
When our son was three months old, the library near us reopened with limited hours. After subsisting on the riches of the Libby and Hoopla apps I was eager to re-enter a library and peruse its shelves, to introduce our son to the pleasures of browsing. Since we’d moved from one state to another duringContinue reading “What We Carry: 2021 book list”
Grey Sea & Sky 