By Corrin Magditch

The smell of olive trees at night

On postpartum hair loss, Helen DeWitt, Scott Broker, Metaphysical Animals, Louise Glück, and the many smells of May

May 18•Corrin Magditch

1. On forcing rhubarb and reading

   • Accepting the seasonality of reading and what I'm doing instead
   • Apr 24•Corrin Magditch

2. Short books for the shortest month

   • What's up with writers and green ink? (potential spoilers ahead)
   • Mar 2•Corrin Magditch

3. The other side of the fireside holidays

   • My hopes for a new year of reading and what I've read since I wrote you last
   • Jan 25•Corrin Magditch

4. The sound of a book lying closed

   • Do you hear what I hear?
   • Dec 22, 2025•Corrin Magditch

5. Dancing, waterfalls, parties, traveling, and all god’s natural wonders.

   • I'm doing none of these but I am reading lots of Claire-Louise Bennett
   • Nov 24, 2025•Corrin Magditch

6. A bubble, not a shell

   • A child was born and surprisingly, I've read some things
   • Nov 3, 2025•Corrin Magditch

7. Gradually and then suddenly

   • A recent reading recap, a request, and why I will be MIA this fall
   • Sep 30, 2025•Corrin Magditch

8. Joy pouring in

   • Spring on the farm, the reading rut has lifted, some of my favorite recent reads, and books I ordered
   • Jun 3, 2025•Corrin Magditch

9. Yellow flowers forever

   • The daffodils have opened under the big sycamore and in clumps beneath the wine berry brambles.
   • Apr 7, 2025•Corrin Magditch

10. A little beyond the midway point in Middlemarch

• My thoughts (no spoilers) on Middlemarch thus far and more
• Mar 17, 2025•Corrin Magditch

11. Is the bleak mid-winter behind us?

• In February I was really in the doldrums. As a typical winter fan, it’s startling to find that this year that was waning. The wind and the ice forced me…
• Feb 28, 2025•Corrin Magditch