Summer Reading

"...in life, in fairy tales, those who, out of fear and poverty, cannot afford emotions and who therefore...have to try out their seemingly atrophied ability to love on inanimate substances and objects unheeded by anyone else -such as ash, a needle, a pencil, or a matchstick." pg 145






"Since (in theory) things outlast us, they know more about us than we do about them - they bear their experience of us within them and are - in a literal sense - the book of our history lying open before us." pg 169

This summer's reading list is mostly comprised of W.G. Sebald (I've oddly started with A Place in the Country as an introduction of his work through his inspirations, and moved to On the Natural History of Destruction and then the emergence of memory). I've also thrown in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and The Book Thief. Obvious pattern emerging here...