Author: borkali

Just have to share: LINK Now that’s summer reading! 😀

This Picasso is the cover of The Steins Collect, an art history book my neighbor Dave gave me in a haul of several boxes from a late relative who worked at SF MOMA– I am so fortunate to have verbalized my love of books; they just keep coming. This one is full of the art collections

I was hoping for a short book of poetry to come my way, and this one fell out of my biochemistry textbook while I was writing my final exam. I must have picked this up while I was in Big Sur at the Henry Miller Library last October. I read this a few times over,

I found this book, Shipwrecks on Cape Cod by Isaac Small, in the same little library in Maywood, NJ where I found The Light Princess. In fact, I loved both these finds so much I was talking about it with one of my dad’s office assistants, Coreen, and she said “you must be my daughter from another dimension- I put

I found this book on the advanced reader shelf in the basement of the library. This is a treasure trove for us volunteers, since advanced readers come in continuously to the library and cannot be sold, and must be given away. We try to give out these advanced readers when we table at the Farmer’s

I have been given a number of Okawa books by an enthusiast and this might be my last one for a little while. Though I did have quite an experience outside Penn Station that makes me wonder… I was waiting for my train outside Penn Station at around 8:30am on Thursday. I was quite literally

This book came to me by way of the same patient who gave me A Spiritual Interview with George Washington. It is written by the same Japanese millionaire author. This book was interesting to read because there were elements of it that I completely agreed with, but I also absolutely felt that there were subtleties within the

I picked this up in the used book section of a Barnes and Noble- these are rare places and the one in NJ is the centralized location for all used books sold through B&N. Suffice to say I was there for a little while last night. I got this because I felt like thinking about

Today I was hanging out at my dad’s office and was looking through his bookshelves to find something to read. I found this and was completely blown away and read it in its entirety this afternoon– it is a short and uncomplicated read, but by far one of the stranger publications I’ve read to date.