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All books are one book: missing digits on the dominant hand in Our Wives Under the Sea and, the next day, in Lab Girl. #aba1b

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This weekend I read in I Want a Better Catastrophe of author Andrew Boyd in a session with Joanna Macy. Today I learned she died (at 96). #aba1b is really All Books Are One Life, as indeed everything on Earth is. #andrewboyd #joannamacy

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Listening to Richard Powers’s Time of Our Singing, one of whose main characters sing Lieder. Reading Tan Twan Eng’s House of Doors, whose MC once accompanied a singer of Lieder. All books are one book. #aba1b #speakingconfidentially

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All Books Are One Book: I finished Blue Place, set partly in Norway -- troll country -- and mentioning Three Billy Goats Gruff as a troll tale, then began Book Woman of T. Creek, whose pa wants her to marry: “[F]or all Pa cared, it could be the beastly troll in [3BGG] who wanted my hand.” #aba1b

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All books are one book: Minutes after reading in Napoleon's Hemorrhoids about the origins of "I'd like to buy the world a Coke," I read in George Saunders's collection Liberation Day that one character would like to buy another a Coke. #aba1b

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