My Gardam and Godden summer, the medieval book of hours up close, a picture book project and the joy of the public library, a Paris Review hack, and some literary recipes| Gathering Light
An ongoing list| gatheringlight.substack.com
Anyone want to give me a pep talk?| gatheringlight.substack.com
Making sense of the senseless| gatheringlight.substack.com
How 20th century women authors changed my reading habits forever| Gathering Light
Barbara Pym on parasocial relationships, an overlooked Irish Catholic author you must read, Eva Brann and reading with delight, the best Trojan War adaptation, literary recipes, and a year on Substack| gatheringlight.substack.com
Are you longing to swathe yourself in fine Indian muslin and make some questionable romantic decisions? These fictional leading ladies will show you the way.| gatheringlight.substack.com
Music, poetry, and art to experience alongside Shakespeare's tragedy| Gathering Light
Is life a miracle or do the gods kill us for their sport?| Gathering Light
An interview with Helene Hanff, the thrill of uncut pages, women mountaineers, how Kazuo Ishiguro comes up with his titles, resources if Shakespeare intimidates you, and some literary inspired recipes| Gathering Light
Helping you to find your next great read| gatheringlight.substack.com
This one is for the parents, the grandparents, the godparents, the aunts and uncles, and all other friends to small people| gatheringlight.substack.com
A sister novel to add to the ranks of Pride and Prejudice and Little Women| gatheringlight.substack.com
Celtic magical realism, a bad tempered inn-keeper, and the longing to be "healed and whole"| gatheringlight.substack.com
Why Shakespeare's comedy is actually the perfect thing to watch at the start of the year| Gathering Light
Or skip this post and just shop the Persephone, Slightly Foxed, and Furrowed Middlebrow catalogues| Gathering Light
On the many riches in O. Henry's deceptively simple short story| Gathering Light
“We will only be able to understand ourselves when we understand the universe. Our present is filled with the past.” -Charles de Koninck| Gathering Light
And some jottings on a year of good books| gatheringlight.substack.com
