Something for Kate's music has been a constant throughout my life. Their music never fail to strike a chime in my head or heart no matter the season of life. A brace for today's #vinyltherapy www.youtube.com/watch?v=bert...

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

I don’t dog-ear, but I do underline & write notes, and I love videos about how people engage with their books.

#AContinuation25 It took us a bit longer than expected (life!), but we're wrapping up our reading of Roland Barthes' THE NEUTRAL.❤️‍🔥

Part 6 of our project—Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME—will begin soon! We're doing a slow, slow read (40pp/wk) & we'll begin SWANN'S WAY on August 2nd. Links below. ⬇️

all i want is more time to read

‘You might say she ended where she began, moving from being a plagiarist of her own life to an acclaimed celebrator of the poetic quotidian.’

Anne Enright (@thewrengirl.bsky.social) on Helen Garner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

According to Olivier Cohen (one of the most interesting people out there & the founder of my French publishing house), I discovered today that Cormac McCarthy had A la recherche de temps perdu in mind when he wrote his Border Crossing trilogy (!!! and ???).

'It is impossible not to warm to someone prepared to expose her worst moments to the world in this way.'

Claire Lowdon on the million details of Helen Garner

Still my favorite podcaster

It's a basic fact that you can spend £9.99 on a good book that could last you a few weeks (if you pace yourself).

It's really quite the investment to be taken away on a fantastic journey or grow to love a character. Or learn new things.

It's also fairly cheap way to keep your brain healthy.