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will read for food
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notes from a bookseller-at-large
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morning spam (reprinted in its entirety)
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Life is the rose’s hope…
From the randomly-opened pages of the Complete Poems of John Keats, (Modern Library Edition): Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit; a poor Indian’s sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci. Why so sad...
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evening delivery haiku
The UPS truck doesn’t stop, or even slow– this makes the dog sad.
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a library in a turf hut in the arctic circle
I can’t believe it took me so long to find this book. Tete-Michel’s An African in Greenland was first published in 1981, republished twenty years later, and it was ten years after that it came to my attention–and I’m the kind of person who goes looking for books. It makes...
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Winter is a strange thing in the south, where we can have days that feel like summer, followed by weeks that certainly don’t. After starting the New Year with bright, warm weather we are now back to bright and cold winds. It is exhilarating to walk with the dog, but...
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