Housekeeping

“Sometimes I genuinely worry that I’ll never read a book I love as much as I love this one. I remember the first time I read it so vividly even though I’ve read it a dozen times since then. On a sentence level, it’s unbeatable.”

“by Marilynne Robinson is one of my favorite books. Two sisters (raised by their grandmother, then their great-aunts, then their aunt) learn about loss, memory, and grief in their glacial lake-side hometown of Fingerbone.”

“It feels like you’re in the town and in the lake when you read this book. You can feel the cold and lonesomeness. The landscape and the weather are the grief the women are feeling, but not expressing in a way anyone else can accept. I kinda want to read it again even though I just read it.”

“A forever favorite that I reread every couple of years— best enjoyed slowly.”

““To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.””