Volume 3, No. 6: What Do You Read When You're Drowning?
Books for frazzled brains and tired hearts
Hi, book people. This was not the newsletter I was planning to send out today. I’m working on an essay about At the Pond, a beautiful book of essays about the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond at Hampstead Heath in London. I was going to send that out today, but it’s not done. Then, over the weekend, I finished listening to Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H, one of the best books I’ve read this year. I wrote the first draft of an essay about the book, and my relationship to Judaism, and sacred texts, and ritual. I was going to send that out today, but it’s not done.
It has been a shit year for me so far. I got sick on my birthday, the second week in January, and since then, it feels like I’ve been jumping from crisis to crisis. The particulars, maybe, don’t matter so much: things breaking; sudden and unexpected job insecurity; my pup recovering from surgery. The stress of living alone (which I mostly love) and having to deal with all of it by myself—the small stuff and the big stuff—is exhausting. And t…
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