i picked fieldwork by mischa berlinski on the recommendation of my local independent bookseller. (since that’s how i found the history of love, it didn’t even occur to me that i wouldn’t utterly fall for this book too.)

it’s an interesting premise: mischa berlinski (and we could spend the rest of the afternoon discussing the [...]

it’s a testament to my mind-blearing life lately, but i haven’t been reading much. i can’t hold any words in my head. (i even gave up sucker-punching my way through jonthan norrell and mr strange because it just wasn’t assuaging my bb-gunned soul.) desperate, i picked up this tiny little african surprise at the library.

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i’ve been known to pick up a pulitzer prize winner, struggle through a handful of pages, and then think to myself, “what does this silly prize committee know that i don’t?” not so with the color purple.

this book is startling in its genius. heartbreaking in its wanderings.

it’s written in two of my least [...]

i finished last night. it’s over. for twenty-one days i have lived in middle-earth. i’ve dreamed of saruman and his wolves. i’ve seen myself in hobbit holes. i’ve cried with samwise gamgee as he dumped his cooking pots into a crack of mordor. i love this book. (and, as the incredibly informative introduction in my [...]