Small Hours by Sindhu Shivaprasad

Small Hours by Sindhu Shivaprasad

#23: A notebook hoarder's defence

Joan Didion comes to my rescue

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Sindhu Shivaprasad
Dec 03, 2021
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I'll admit it: I'm a notebook hoarder. Expensive dot grids rest on a towering pile of yellow pads; accordion sketchbooks occupy one corner of the art cupboard along with pocket-sized diaries. It doesn't matter to me that I write in barely any of these. If anything, I buy them... not to write in them.

But there are some that I sacrifice to the inevitable …

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