Category: Reading

An important day

A Substack newsletter by Alexander Chee* alerted me to this date. It’s the day Lauren Oya Olamina starts her diary in Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler. I pulled the book off my...

neolithic daydreams

I’ve been reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. The pages were turning quickly until I got to this part almost half way through, and then I was stopped in...

In the mail

Feeling so fortunate to have an excellent mail day. A selection of Threadcrumbs moons and a book by Sylvia Townsend Warner. I’m looking forward to reading about a community of women (a convent) in...