things change

It’s my birthday and I have a cold. At my new, landmark age this means that I am incapable of doing anything to celebrate the day.

I need to start reading a new book and I’ve decided to re-read something I last read way, way back. My first choice was going to be Cornell Woolrich’s The Black Curtain. This has always been a well-loved book of mine, with its dark cover and the yellow-edged pages. But to my dismay, I cannot find it! If you have borrowed it, can I please have it back?

Other books I might have considered would have been Take a Girl Like You (Kingsley Amis) and The Deptford Trilogy (Robertson Davies), but in the end I decided on Demian (Hermann Hesse). These books, whilst not necessarily my favourite books, are significant books from my youth, particularly the books of Hesse. My paperback copy of Demian is 39 years old and the pages have an aged, rusty brown border!