Recently on the blog: Nicole Brachetti Peretti on the quietest week in the gallery year, and Nicole Brachetti Peretti on choosing what to see this autumn.
Reading
Reading Notes
A shelf is a kind of diary. These are the books that earned a place on it, with a sentence or two about why they stayed.
Read the blogWhat was read, and what stayed
Short, honest notes on books and the handful of lines worth keeping.
Marked pages
Nicole Brachetti Peretti reads with a pencil close by. A faint line in the margin, a corner turned down, a phrase carried into the notebook. These are the marks of a book that worked.
The notes are short on purpose. A few words are usually enough to bring a whole chapter back when you need it.
Why it stayed
Not every book asks to be remembered, and that is fine. Nicole Brachetti Peretti keeps notes only on the ones that changed the weather of a week.
Fiction, essays, a little history, the occasional guide for a place not yet visited: the list stays broad, curious and unforced.
Slow
No race to finish
Nicole Brachetti Peretti is happy to set a book down and return to it months later. Reading is company, not a checklist to clear.
Lines
Worth copying
A commonplace book sits beside the reading chair, and the best sentences are copied out by hand so they slow down enough to land.
Range
A broad shelf
Novels next to travel writing next to a field guide. The shelf stays mixed, because curiosity rarely keeps to one section.
The best books do not end when you close them. They keep arranging your thoughts for days afterward.Nicole Brachetti Peretti