on being a dilettante
Yes yes yes! I love this way of reading - perhaps it's a product of our generation in our post colonial locations.
Another path for me was the accidental finds in a Sunday book bazaar - my city, but also bombay and delhi.
I love accident and coincidence as paths to reading. Kenyan streets became libraries of lovely books, but this was while I was away.
My way of reading is similar to this. What a delight to read this article!
Thanks for reading, Catherine!
I suspect this method describes many of us who became readers from the 70s through the 90s.
Your reading history is our reading history - I felt such a wave of nostalgia reading your article.
How I miss that cozy second-hand bookshop in Westlands oh, the joy of digging through shelves for hidden 'treasures'!
I love this and also an ode to smut and how it has shaped us is long overdue. I, too, love a bodice ripper scifi mystery romance with lots of orifices. More trash reading for all!
Yes yes yes! I love this way of reading - perhaps it's a product of our generation in our post colonial locations.
Another path for me was the accidental finds in a Sunday book bazaar - my city, but also bombay and delhi.
I love accident and coincidence as paths to reading. Kenyan streets became libraries of lovely books, but this was while I was away.
My way of reading is similar to this. What a delight to read this article!
Thanks for reading, Catherine!
I suspect this method describes many of us who became readers from the 70s through the 90s.
Your reading history is our reading history - I felt such a wave of nostalgia reading your article.
How I miss that cozy second-hand bookshop in Westlands oh, the joy of digging through shelves for hidden 'treasures'!
I love this and also an ode to smut and how it has shaped us is long overdue. I, too, love a bodice ripper scifi mystery romance with lots of orifices. More trash reading for all!