on the life-changing joy of re-reading books

i'm on a new book diet this summer and loving it

The chair pictured above is where I’ll be spending most of my summer holiday. Not that I take holidays as a writer. I just consume a great deal of ice cream and read a lot more.

Earlier this year, after a decade of living in book-chaos, I finally organised my home library into some semblance of order. I wrote about the ad hoc organisational system I dev…