Not gonna lie, I’ve always adored a good compendium. You’ll find an ecclectic assortment of collected works and unabridged journals on my shelves—Shakespeare, Borges, Plath, and Leonardo da Vinci come to mind. I was trained on the Illustrated Wildlife Treasury—a green plastic box of collect-them-all animal cards in the 1980s. After reading, alphabetizing my collection probably occupied the next highest number of hours of my no-cable TV childhood. No surprise I nominated myself to create an annotated directory of newsletters about books, hosted on Substack.
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