Read: Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively ★★★★ 📚

There is a vogue for ‘life writing’ at the moment, both for publication and as private endeavours. I am all for it, partly because I gobble up other people’s lives, as a reader, but also because it seems to me a productive personal exercise – to stand aside and have a look at your story and try, not to make sense of it, which may be too taxing, but to trace the narrative thread, to look at the roads not taken, to see where you began and where you have got to.

Lovely memoir and reflections on memory, books & old age. The author is continually curious across history, objects, people…