existing's tricky:but to live's a gift
I think it is unlikely I would have spontaneously picked up Klara and the Sun at this particular time of my life. I also don’t think I would have selected it on the basis of its blurb (see above), although I do very much like its cover (cleverly inside and out). But
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I associate the smell of woodfire with autumn giving way to winter, dark wet cobbled streets, treacherously slippy fallen leaves, damp socks, dim bike lights, painful chapped hands. This is the season of course that heralds Christmas, the turn of the year, and thus it felt so natural to me that it took a few seconds before it jarred against the reality of warm summer air and blue skies. I could smell wood-smoke on Christmas day
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Mad to Live 