From the Bookshelf of 2018 TCPL Reading Challenge!

Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
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Start date
January 4, 2018
Finish date
January 15, 2018
Why we're reading this
Romantic, tender memoir from Bill Hayes involving relationships and self. See my review at https://www.go…more

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Once-a-librarian
Jan 16, 2018 rated it it was amazing
This is such a beautiful book. I love Bill Haye's literary and photographic style. The intimacy shared on these pages frequently triggered tears to brim up in my eyes, but there's a graceful, quiet restraint in this memoir so that's where they remained. Although New York City is "the" place, it doesn't matter where you are to understand and perhaps relate to this sad, gorgeous reflection on love, life, loss, joy, death, acceptance ... everything! I am grateful to the author for writing this book ...more