Tsundoku: The Art of Collecting Books by Taiki Raito Pym #joyce PaperbackPublication: 28 Mar 2024

PaperbackPublication: 28 Mar 2024

history was open - just as in the present

uncompromising dedication to art

to Sylvia Plath

Meilin asks her mother to tell her

Tsundoku: The Art of Collecting Books by Taiki Raito Pym #joyce PaperbackPublication: 28 Mar 2024An ode to the quiet joy of collecting more books than we could ever possibly read and loving them all the same Drawing on the evocative Japanese term tsundoku first coined in the Meiji era to describe the growing stacks of unread books that accumulate around devoted readers this insightful and warmly humorous book reframes what some might see as clutter or guilt as a deeply meaningful way of living. From the tactile pleasure of flipping through pages