Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. Carol Shields Republic of Love

Two Girls Reading Girl Reading

Scribner – Simon & Schuster, 2012

In my early twenties, I bought Cosmopolitan religiously.

But I’m not sure that I’ve ever read a book that was blurbed by Cosmo. 

Or, if I have, it wasn’t also blurbed by Hilary Mantel.

But that’s the case with Katie Ward’s Girl Reading.

(Cosmopolitan + Hilary Mantel = [...]