Simply reading....

..several things at once. Do you do this?

Ploughing my way through Hermione Lee's biography of Penelope Fitzgerald. (Loving the way the glass top of my new desk reflects the sky into the room.)

I could give you a quote I love from almost any page of Swan by poet Mary Oliver -

           If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give into it.

Dipping into the journals of Delacroix. Interesting, though not as much about his painting as I had hoped.

Delighting in a re-read of Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. Must get The Winter Book.

Laughing out loud at this 'all-too-human, funny and poignant tale'. Unflinchingly honest account by a natural story teller. Published in Canada (and sent to me by Julia - thank you!) it is well worth reading if you can find it..

And did you know that Sylvia Plath could draw?