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Since 2012, I’ve been writing about books. And the act of reading. And the importance of story and narrative. But, mostly, the underlying theme of all I write is how taking a moment to stop and digest some longform text — instead of scrolling, instead of watching a video, instead of multitasking — can be one of the most grounding things we can do for ourselves. Here’s the one-stop online home for all this writing.
You can read more about me and my work by moseying over here. Want to peruse periodic “essay drops” — excerpts from my work-in-progress essay collection about Homesickness? Here ya go.
Baker & Taylor And All Those Popular Books We Want
It’s been a long time since I’ve bought a hot book. No, not that kind of hot book. (🔥) And not in an Amish Romance kind of way either, although I do enjoy shelving those at the Habitat ReStore. I just mean the types of highly anticipated, much-publicized novels that, say, Jenna Bush Hager often selects. I usually reserve those for the library. Literally. I reserve them and am often like number 350 on the waitlist.
Yesteryear
I’m just a girl,
Standing in front of the reserve shelf at my library,
Asking why I do this to myself over and over.
On the Calculation of Volume (I-III)
It’s not Groundhog Day…although the basic gist of the seven-volume On the Calculation of Volume — these slim novels by Solvej Balle and translated from Danish by Barbara J. Haveland, Sophia Hersi Smith, and Jennifer Russell — is that a woman named Tara Setler is stuck in a strange time loop where every day is November 18.
