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In every good book there are those key moments that simply stand out. This personal project started in 2024 is my attempt to document the books I’ve read and capture those key moments with pencil and paper.
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I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai
read: Oct 2024
“I'd held Granby in my palm like the most fragile egg, avoided risk, kept my crushes theoretical, tried my best to hide in plain sight. I'd worked for four years to keep the same Graby I'd first glimpsed from the Robesons' car window: mythic, a place I was visiting rather than a place that could ever hurt me.”
Imagine Me Gone
Adam Haslett
read: july 2024
“A few months ago, a fog blinded me, thicker than ever before. I slept in the monster's arms. I felt its breath on my neck, its scaled stomach rising and falling against my back, its head and face invisible as always.”
Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue
read: june 2024
“ ‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.’ ”
Wellness
Nathan Hill
read: may 2024
“If you cling too hard to what you want to see, you miss what’s really there.”
The Little Liar
Mitch Albom
read: feb 2024
“Truth is a straight line, but human life is a flexible experience.”
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
read: jan 2024
“I’ve tried in this telling, time and again, to pinpoint the moment where everything starts to fall apart. Everything, meaning me. But there’s also the opposite, where some little nut cracks open inside you and a tree starts to grow. Even harder to nail. Because that thing’s going to be growing a long time before you notice. Years maybe. Then one day you say, Huh, that little crack between my ears has turned into this whole damn tree of wonderful.”
