Author: Coin Macy
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Why we read
I cannot remember the first book that truly belonged to me. Not the first one I owned, nor the first one I was made to read at school, but the first that felt as though it had arrived carrying some quiet knowledge about the world that I did not yet possess. I have tried, over…
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When Adults Write Childhood
Increasingly, authors, and aprents alike, describe children’s books as the stories they “wished they had as children.” But when adults write childhood from memory, the centre of the story can quietly shift from the child reader to the adult remembering.
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A LETTER TO F
Dear F You once told me “the best way to beat death is to die…” That way, you added, there’s really nothing that it can do. It was one of those sunny Sundays, remember? When we could never think of anything to do because of the stifling heat and the only thing that could quench…