I recall seeing a very passionate recommendation for this book in the comments section of a Pajiba movie review, and I ordered a while back, without a lot of thought. And I mention this only because it means I had no idea what this book was about, or what I was getting into. All I knew, I insinuated from the beautiful cover — a young woman on a beach, her pronounced indifference seemingly daring the photographer — and everyone else — to try to capture even one small […]
A Last Natural Wilderness
Milan Kundera wrote “Beauty is a world betrayed… [t]he only way we can encounter it is if its persecutors have overlooked it somewhere.” You know that feeling of discovering something beautiful? Something, perhaps, overlooked? In the case of a book, chances are that you didn’t really “discover” it, not in any real sense of the word. Someone else discovered it, and then a lot of other people discovered it too – after all, there it is, printed and bound and sitting in your lap. But maybe you […]