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[Book Quote Tuesday] Reading As An Intimate Conversation

Do you read alone in the lamplight, too?

by Myra Garces-Bacsal
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Myra here.

It is that time of the week again where we share a book quote that seemed particularly striking for us.

Our book quote theme from here on onwards will be about BOOKS and READING.

I am not sure where I learned about Yoshida Kenko’s Essays In Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa Of Kenko (Amazon), but I have always been intrigued by it. I love this quote because it fully captures how intimate reading has become for me, of late. I find myself being more selective of the voices I allow close to my consciousness, because I feel this sense of intimacy and communion with words on the page.

What was the last book you were intimate with?

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About Myra Garces-Bacsal

Myra is a Teacher Educator and a registered clinical psychologist based in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Prior to moving to the Middle East, she lived for eleven years in Singapore serving as a teacher educator. She has edited five books on rediscovering children’s literature in Asia (with a focus on the Philippines, Malaysia, India, China, Japan) as part of the proceedings for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content where she served as the Chair of the Programme Committee for the Asian Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference from 2011 until 2019. While she is an academic by day, she is a closet poet and a book hunter at heart. When she is not reading or writing about books or planning her next reads, she is hoping desperately to smash that shuttlecock to smithereens because Badminton Is Life (still looking for badminton courts here at UAE - suggestions are most welcome).

www.gatheringbooks.org

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