Christmas Came Early!

Ok I admit. I OD-ed on books this weekend. The air in my room is still wreathed in an airy light-headedness. And I still can’t help but giggle when I open my shiny new bag to reveal the weekend’s spoils. I’d really like to parade them around but for the lack of shelves. My floor [...]

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One Great Love

I’ve been having some sort of crisis trying to fill the wide gaping void left behind by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera. Really, I think it is going to take a while. It is such a winner!

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An (Anti)ode to One True Love + Reading Gold

The other day on the promise of not-just-another-typical-sappy-romantic-comedy, I caught (500) days of summer. If you are a hopeless romantic, this movie will leave you in dissatisfaction. If you’re not, you’ll say yay for realities and our vulnerabilities to love. I think what I liked best about the movie was how they managed to show [...]

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Reading Gold

I’d love to find scribblings in an old book. Especially ones which shout out what I am feeling exactly Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I could just get my hands on you, Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O’Brien, they [...]

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Reading Gold

“And it is brave to love, for love is the mortal enemy of death. Love is death’s twin, born in the same moment, each fighting for mastery, and if death takes all, love would do the same. Yet it is easier to die than to love. Death will shatter me, but in love’s service I [...]

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