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Hollow Field Notes

Notes on books. Mostly diaries, sometimes libraries.

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What we do

A small book club

None of this is new, and that is partly why it works.

Reading lists

I keep a short list of things to try next; reading bit by bit is near the top.

Essays on books

I abandoned it halfway and came back a year later, glad I did.

Monthly reading notes

Good reading lists is largely a series of modest, unglamorous decisions.

Letters

Archive

The best passages are the ones I copied out by hand.

About

Margins are where reading turns into thinking. It is simple to overthink reading aloud. It is harder to just start. More