David Kern

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I am the owner of Goldberry Books in Concord, NC, and host of several bookish podcasts including Close Reads, The Daily Poem, Withywindle (a show for kids), and The Goldberry Books Pod, all available on Substack or wherever you get podcasts.

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Now Available to Pre-order: "The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life" by Heidi White

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In the book “CS Lewis in Oxford” there is a great image of one of Lewis’ books, totally marked up with marginalia in black and blue.

Isaac Withers

C.S. Lewis is on team write in books - just FYI

I often wonder—considering how people enjoy themselves developing photos or making scrap-books—why so few people make a hobby of their reading in this way. Many an otherwise dull book which I had to read have I enjoyed in this way, with a fine-nibbed pen in my hand: one is making something all the time and a book so read acquires the charm of a toy without losing that of a book.

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David Kern

Finished A Tale of Two Cities. Tomorrow we will be recording on the final chapters. Fascinated by two things:

The complicated nature of the French revolution and the way Dickens portrays it—and the ways that portrayal may or may not be rooted in reality. But ultimately does it matter?
The final ¼ of the book flies by. It’s so dramatic. So I wonder as the threads come together in really satisfying ways if he was feeling his way into them along the way. The book just coalesces, like a sauce comin…