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Save:A thoughtful, poetic invitation to notice and celebrate life's small joys - best enjoyed in bite-sized doses whenever you need a lift.
Ross Gay's 'The Book of Delights' is a collection of short essays or essayettes where the author explores and celebrates the simple joys and delights he encounters in everyday life. Gay embarked on a project to write about a delight he experienced each day for a year, resulting in a diverse range of topics from mundane pleasures to deeper reflections on race and social issues. The writing style is lyrical, comical, and profound, capturing the essence of finding joy in the smallest of things.
The book offers a unique format where readers can enjoy a quick read by picking topics from the table of contents or leisurely savoring a few essays at a time. Despite occasional run-on sentences, the essays are described as beautiful, simple, surprising, and sometimes thought-provoking. Ross Gay's ability to find delight in the ordinary and the bizarre, coupled with his humorous and observant writing style, makes 'The Book of Delights' a heartwarming and enriching read.
It’s my forty-second birthday. And it would make perfect (if self-involved) sense to declare the day of my birth a delight, despite the many years I’ve almost puritanically paid no attention to it. A...February 2019•289 pages
