What I'm reading right now
Three books on the nightstand and what each of them is for.
The first one is the long novel I'm halfway through. It's the slowest book I've read in years — the kind where nothing happens for sixty pages and then a paragraph reorders your whole understanding of a character. I keep it on the nightstand and read maybe ten pages a night.
The second is a book of essays about gardens, which I started because we're planning a small patch by the porch and I wanted to know what I was getting into. It is making me far more ambitious than is probably wise.
The third is a re-read. I'm not going to say which one — I think you should be allowed to re-read books in private, the way you can listen to the same record sixteen days in a row when you're a teenager.
— Kayla