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2024: how’s it going?
Here we are, nearly at the end of February. I still don’t feel much like blogging yet here I am anyway, putting words out into the ether to see where they land. 2024 continues the path of joy we have … Continue reading →
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
I have been thinking this week about the importance of stories, how important it is to tell our stories but most of all how important it is to hear them, to listen; to listen and not judge. I have been … Continue reading →
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and, see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that … Continue reading →
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter (translated by Lawrence Millman)
“How varied are the experiences one lives through in the Arctic. One can murder and devour, calculate and measure, one can go out of one’s mind from loneliness and terror, and one can certainly go mad with enthusiasm for the … Continue reading →
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The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
When I set myself a challenge I really like to test myself, which is why I don’t set myself challenges very often and when I do I often fail. When I set myself this challenge to read fewer books I … Continue reading →
A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland
I spent a lot of time thinking about the kind of books I wanted to focus on in my attempt to read more slowly, and it wasn’t too long before Sara Maitland’s A Book of Silence found itself rising to … Continue reading →
Not a ‘year in review’ blog
Firstly I should point out that I love end of the year blogs, year in review blogs and all those summaries and sharings of the great books people have read during the course of the year. I love that there … Continue reading →
The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
“Confident and armed with index cards, I looked out at the fifty or so friends and colleagues of my father’s who had gathered around the memorial Norway spruce, launched into my first sentence, and began to shudder violently from the … Continue reading →
Posted in medicine, memoir, neurology, non-fiction, personal account, psychology, science, Siri Hustvedt
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Field Notes From a Hidden City by Esther Woolfson
This is one of those books that’s been sitting on my shelf for aeons, with all my good intentions of getting around to it gathering like dust on the shelf. As is the case for many of my books. I … Continue reading →
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
May Sarton was a prolific writer, publishing something in the region of 50 books in her lifetime covering fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She, in her youth, knew the Bloomsbury set though not well (though I am somewhat jealous she met … Continue reading →
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