For all the readers...

I have taken up reading the Weekly Guardian during my time here in Malawi. Cast aside after my boss has finished reading them, I enjoy picking them up and discovering what has been taking place in the wide world outside of my little bubble (even if the news is a solid month and a half late! :).

Most of the time, I am slightly depressed upon finishing reading... an increase in tensions here, more unemployment there, and everywhere proof of humanity’s inability to act with... well... with humanity!

Yet I keep reading, because every now and then there is an article so beautiful, so full of hope, and so reflective of what goes on inside my eclectic mind, that it leaves me dancing through my daily routines. A little glimpse of commonality, leaving me feeling a little less alone in this crazy world!

Such was the nature of an article I picked up this morning, and for those of you out there who still find yourself irrationally compelled to purchase obscene and impractical numbers of used books, despite the rise of the e-reader and it obvious advantages... I would highly recommend this article:

“My Life as a Bibliophile” by Julian Barnes, for The Guardian Weekly.

For ‘ How weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in your life’!