Tonight, fueled by the coffee I should not have had after dinner, I picked up Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. It was also published in English under the title The Journal of My Other Self. That's how I found it.
Once, wandering through the books on a table at Borders, I came across a novel about which a reviewer had written that you could "open the book at any page," and a stunning sentence would leap out. It wasn't true (for me) of that book. It is true of this one. I've never before recommended a book I haven't read. I recommend this.
On deck: Everything else by Rilke
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