Current situation. 🤓📚🌙✨

I'm a sucker for a beautiful opening sentence.

Over lunch, for thirty minutes a day, he reread Dickens, Trollope, or Goethe, and he remembered who he was inside.

Craig Mack voice: "I got the data to turn your body into anti-matter."

Happy #nationalbookloversday! Who knew? Here's a celebratory shot of my nightstand featuring my current read, Americanah; most recent read, Homegoing; and towering to-read pile (to the left of Flavor Flav).

A beautifully written, important, stunning début.

I recently finished In the Unlikely Event, moved on to Before the Fall, and started watching Lost for the first time. A moratorium on flight disaster entertainment might be in order.

She was thinking about the way she'd always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.