Thanksgiving has come and gone for another year. Turkeys were carved. Pies were sliced. Leftovers were crammed into the refrigerator. And now America fights two plagues at once: COVID-19 and the inescapable sound of Christmas music everywhere. Every. Where. That said, why am I still working on a Thanksreading piece? That’s easy. I didn’t do …
Continue reading Thanksreading 2020: Postscript In Praise of Piles
Something was wrong. It was the winter of 1985-’86, and I was really sick. Like, REALLY sick. I missed weeks and weeks of school, made numerous trips to different doctors and specialists, and filled countess tubes of blood for testing. What was the diagnosis? There wasn’t one. We still don’t know what was going on. …
Continue reading Thanksreading 2020: The Un-bear-able Lightness of Reading
This is going to be a short one, y’all. Sort of a coda to yesterday’s recollection of War and Piece and my lack of ever reading it. My wife shared an article with me about owning books that go unread, and it was profoundly interesting. Entitled The value of owning more books than you can …
Continue reading Thanksreading 2020: The Book I’m Not Reading
For this year’s Thanksreading series, I’m exploring my development as a reader and giving thanks for the books and people who made me the lover of books that I am today. "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that …
For this year’s Thanksreading series, I’m exploring my development as a reader and giving thanks for the books and people who made me the lover of books that I am today. Out on Route 15 in Johnson, VT, near the intersection with Hog Back Road, there’s a tiny, unassuming shop called Buggyman Antiques. That’s where …
