Dear Reader. I hope that you are reading today!
Tidbits from literature and music inform my work and feed my mind, and so I am sharing my current reads with you, on this celebration of reading day. When I choose books to read, I often try to find ones in which our human duality might be spoken of, demonstrated or described in its loving gentleness and savage cruelty or weakness. Some of my favorite stories are from Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver. Neruda, Murakami and George Saunders are on my shelves as well. I own both a hardcover and a paperback version of my all time favorite children’s book “Madeline and the Gypsies”. The paperback hangs from a heavy clip in my studio. I used to sleep with it when I was sick, as a child and even as a young adult, as if it’s magic could make me feel better. I borrow books, buy books, covet books, organize books, pile books, take books to the bath and have books in every room of the house.
The photos shown are a current read/lucky Goodwill find, my next read-newly purchased, and my soon to read pile. Concurrently, I am listening to an audio-book from the public library with the library app Libby “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens.
Please, share your love and your books with each other. May it all bring us closer together.
