I read in The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Peter Sís that Pablo Neruda had a way of seeing ordinary objects as if all the stories he needed already existed in them. That idea fascinated me, and I was surprised to find he had written a book devoted entirely to such things.
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Reading in parallel for surprising connections
I wasn't much of a reader until I started reading to my daughter every night, around 10 years ago. Since then, reading slowly became a part of my life, and looking back, a handful of ideas made it possible. Here …