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by
Anne Bogel
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October 7 - October 16, 2024
Why do these revelations delight us so? Screenwriters have a name for it. They call it the comedy gap, that gap between what we expect to happen and what actually happens. Or, in this case, what we expect a person’s reading life to be like and what it’s truly like.
C. S. Lewis once wrote, “Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’”
I don’t carefully plan—and yet it’s uncanny how often I seem to be reading just the right book at just the right time.
The book spoke to where we were, capturing the truth of our experience, validating our loss.
what I’ve come to learn is this: if my real life reminds me of something I read in a book, I’m reading well—and I’m probably living well, too.
You shouldn’t tell another grown-up what to read, or when, or how.
L’Engle once wrote, “The great thing about getting older is you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” She writes in The Irrational Season, “I am not an isolated fifty-seven years old; I am every other age I have been, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven . . . all the way up to and occasionally beyond my present chronology.”
The Opposite of Spoiled, Ron Lieber defines “rich” as having everything you need and most of what you want—the essentials, and a lot more besides.
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier.
During my bookselling day, I discovered that an important part of the job is solving customers’ mysteries.
it hurts to see what we’ve lost. Sometimes that loss looks like change.
A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It’s not the same book, and we’re not the same reader.
“Your father grew up visiting the bookstore. I grew up visiting the library. We haven’t really changed.”
My photographer friend says a good photo album preserves two kinds of histories: the chronological and the emotional. The reminder of both what happened and what it meant to you.
When we share our favorite titles, we can’t help but share ourselves as well.
When I go on vacation, I prefer to live in the moment instead of recording the moment. Taking photos to memorialize the experience isn’t as fun as actually experiencing it. But I feel like taking those photos is a gift to my future self.
