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  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

    “Remember what it was to be me: that is always the point.” (“On Keeping a Notebook”) Starting off the new year with Didion felt like a breath of fresh air, an expanding of my chest, a clearing of space. Her writing is crisp, clear, striking. It fills me with all of the nostalgia I feel […]

    holly

    January 17, 2023
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  • Reading goals for 2023 (informed by Atomic Habits)

    January has arrived with its usual buzz around New Year’s resolutions. So many of us are reflecting on 2022 and thinking of how we want to feel and what we want to achieve in 2023. I love this process of reflection and goal setting, but I’m always cautious about not setting the bar too high […]

    holly

    January 10, 2023
    Books, Uncategorized
    Atomic Habits, books, literature, Quotes, reading goals
  • Top ten books of 2022

    I’m so grateful to have had a lovely reading year in 2022. Narrowing down a list of ten favorite books was difficult, but these are the ones that have stuck with me the most over the course of the past year. Here they are, in the order that I read them: 1. East of Eden […]

    holly

    January 3, 2023
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    Book Review, books, Classics, literature, Top Ten
  • 5 books to start off your new year

    Somehow it’s that time of year again–my local grocery store is playing Christmas music, wreaths and lights have been hung all around downtown, and my tree is up and decorated in the living room. Along with planning for holiday gifts and festivities, I also like to think about what my first book of the new […]

    holly

    December 13, 2022
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  • December reading plans

    It’s “stick season” as they say where I live, which means that all the leaves have fallen and the forests are like webs of bare branches. Mornings are frosty, days are short, and I’ve gone searching in my drawers for my favorite knit hat again. Downtown they’ve hung wreaths and lights from the lampposts and […]

    holly

    December 6, 2022
    Books
    books, literature
  • Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

    “It is the hour of the pearl–the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.” I’m obsessed with the atmosphere Steinbeck created in Cannery Row. It’s a sort of liminal space where thoughts, hopes, and dreams can run wild and judgment dissipates, if only for a brief while. I read this book […]

    holly

    November 22, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Book Review, books, Classics, literature, Quotes
  • November reading plans

    My October was filled with cozy, spooky reads, from Frankenstein and The Scarlet Letter to Practical Magic and everything in between. I embraced reading seasonally and loved how much more connected it made me feel to autumn. I hope to read similarly in November. November has always felt like a sort of resting period to […]

    holly

    November 1, 2022
    Books
    books, Classics, literature
  • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

    “No, no–there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see–what I don’t fear!” The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is such an underrated, under-appreciated autumnal read. This book […]

    holly

    October 25, 2022
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    Book Review, books, Classics, literature
  • On reading seasonally

    This fall I’ve been making a conscious effort to read seasonally, leaning into the moody, spooky, witchy vibes that these cooler months bring. And I’ve loved it. I’ve always been a mood reader, someone who reads based on whatever feelings I’m experiencing or craving. Yet for some reason, I’ve only occasionally synched up what I’m […]

    holly

    October 18, 2022
    Uncategorized
    books, Classics, literature
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    “She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.” I didn’t remember much about my first time reading Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter years ago. I recalled a bit of dense writing, a picturesque Salem setting, and the piercing image of Hester standing on the scaffold, emblazoned with an embroidered “A.” I began this […]

    holly

    October 11, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Book Review, books, Classics, literature
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