Keegan, friendship-love-story, memoirs, repetitive joys, and more
Seven thin(g/k)s I explored this week
Dear Reader,
A warm hello! I was able to peel away from the humdrum of the week and on a balmy weekday evening, enjoyed the company of friends over dinner+dessert. What a gift.
Here are seven links to bits of the world I explored this week, shared with the hope that you will find them to be an inspiring springboard for deeper thinking.
With my morning lemon tea in hand, I am swooning over this real-life One Day friendship-love story, and this nugget of truth offered by the author whose book has turned into a successful Netflix series:
“‘(One Day) is an epic love story,’ he writes, ‘but revisiting it now it seems to me to be a book primarily about friendship, about our capacity to change each other’s lives for the better through conversation and care.’”
Two new recommendations for memoir-lovers, or newbies to the genre.
A tiny but mighty essay on taking one’s child to see Shakespeare.
“I’d been dubious about his company at first. It’s a late night, I’d said, and you probably won’t follow all the dialogue, there are very few kids in Shakespeare, even the jokes are quite Elizabethan. I didn’t want to have to leave at the interval because of a child’s boredom. Try me, he said.”
I’m a notebook geek, so naturally, I felt like a kid in a candy store with this lineup of notebooks.
A reminder that there can be joy in repetition.
Favorite bookstores in NYC. Mine include Argosy, Alabaster Bookshop, Mast Books, and Book Club Bar.
A note from Cillian Murphy on the stunning novella Small Things Like These written by Claire Keegan, who will be playing the main character Bill Furlong in the upcoming film adaptation. (Here are my humble book notes on my close reading of the book this past December.) For those like me who are obsessed with all things Irish, I’d also recommend taking a look at Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland.
See you next week. ♥️
Warmly,
Ani
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