Essays by Lydia Davis

This is another book open on my desk. The best books are those that don't allow you to continue too long on their pages in one sitting but keep sending you again and again to blank page to discuss, explore, think yourself better, or write, or note, or quote. Hers is one such book. Instead of reading it in order, I begin reading 'Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits', and it sends me here. To note, to observe, to explore.

On a separate note, I am trying to commit myself to read 500 essays in a 1000 days. The problem with any such numeric goals is that they are not cut and dried like that. Sometimes an essay from a book makes you want to read the whole book. And then counting all those essays is not the point. You count one or two that are on the aspiration list, but the idea is to read far and wide with 500. So anyhow, I am still in the throes of committing, and the AI helps with wonderful lists culled especially for me given my interests. Lets see how far we go.

I am keen to count this essay by Lydia Davis as one entry. It is worth a reread, and then found again and again amidst busy or quiet years, it again pumps new energy in you. And as one grows out of youth and into middle ages, one values highly whatever that can pump new energy and vitality in you.

Here's to finding good books that:
- send you out of their pages to a blank page to explore and expand and note and quote
- pump you with new energy and vitality.

:)