All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping though the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes--characters even--caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.
--Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
Love that quote.
ReplyDeleteWe just read this book for our book club this month, and I absolutely loved everything about it. I highly recommend it to everyone. It's a great Halloween read.
ReplyDeleteOh, I loved that passage, too! Much of what I loved about the book was that it was about loving books--meta-love, if you will.
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