Cape Fever
book by Nadia Davids
Reflections and marginalia from reading this book—what stood out in the moment, what continued to resonate, what demanded rereading.
the year ends but acquisition does not
Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf
My Top Ten Tuesday Post-Christmas book haul reveals: translated Nobel Prize winner I keep abandoning, writing guides that might finally crack my note-taking chaos, a bookseller so bitter it might be too mean even for me, and the best neighborhood book box score of 2025.
Wishes and wishes
Ten Books I'd Love to Be Gifted This Year
Top Ten Tuesday - From the only cookbook Marcella Hazan brought to America to Pynchon's 'great cheese novel,' this year's wishlist has some stories to tell. (Plus: the housing market horror novel that might hurt too much to read.)