Real stories about beloved books. Collected by Lavie and Jared. Newsletter every Friday.
If I had to give this shelf a name it would be my Irish Hag shelf. Which, coincidentally, is a name I happily give myself: Irish hag.
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Jan 30, 2026
I was in mourning for the books that weren’t on the shelves. The ones I have lost along the way.
Jan 23, 2026
A shelf of somewhat mismatched non-fiction items, shoved together with minimal plan or purpose, ranging across many ages of reading, on an old MFI shelf.
Jan 16, 2026
My fiancée and I were both (a.) hungry for book recommendations and (b.) far too wrapped up in doomscrolling about the rise of populism.
Jan 9, 2026
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