Thinking of reading The Books Of Jacob for the weekend

Early morning foray into the reverent space of melancholy where poetry’s enigma matches it’s unrelenting refusal to be defined. #dianeseuss #sonnets

In Lisbon and Berlin. Travel feeds the soul.

In Montelpuciano, Italy

This book is to refuse to accept what is. It is to challenge what is, to annihilate what is. Lahiri as a writer has been about experimenting with every possibility and permutations writing can do. She inhabited a different language in another country by choice. Language has no citizenship.

Inspired by an old and rusty pan hanging on the wall at a friend’s kitchen, an heirloom from generations of women in the family.

Inspired to write

Craving to read more Abdulrazak Gurnah and the recent Nobel Prize winner Han Kang

Literature provides shape to the intangible, unburden the abstraction and ferociously disentangle the confusion. Greenwell is one of the most profound writers today creating magic with words that sparkle and elighten deepening what is otherwise mundane without the risk of being maudlin.