“I love you. I love you. I love you. I’ll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You’ll never see, but you will know. I’ll be all the poets, I’ll kill them all and take each one’s ...
https://thebooklion.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war/
“This is the attitude that best aids the journal keeper who, through the making of regular entries, is on the hunt for the best articulation of the way she experiences her world… Even if you ...
https://thebooklion.wordpress.com/2022/07/04/keeping-a-journal-you-love/
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver, Devotions) Reading poetry makes your mind poetic. Why didn’t I know this before? I’ve noticed how ...
“If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it.” (Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande) If I ever won the lottery, my first orde...
All the synopsis writers and book reviewers seem to be in cahoots to convince the innocent reader that this book is somehow about Lincoln. What they get out of this deception is beyond me; perh...
https://thebooklion.wordpress.com/2018/08/28/lincoln-in-the-bardo/
“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it wil...
https://thebooklion.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/the-writing-life/
“Out of the right speaker in your inner ear will come the endless stream of self-aggrandizement, the recitation of one’s specialness, of how much more open and gifted and brilliant and knowin...
“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility, like Enfield MA’s state-funded Ennet Hou...
Food memoirs make life seem as though it has a purpose, an overarching constant that holds a person’s story together. Like the memoirists were always meant to become people who love food from t...
https://thebooklion.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/relish-my-life-in-the-kitchen/
“The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soo...
https://thebooklion.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-book-of-tea/