a shameless time at the oyster bar
M. F. K. Fisher's Consider the Oyster is 5.0 x 7.8 x 0.3 inches & a delicious 96 pages.
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I’d hate to apply anything as crass a percentage system on reading, but I think that 80% of the time that I choose to carry a book with me, I don’t read it. But I think that 80% of the time that I choose not to carry a book with me, I need a book. But sometimes Purse Books find you.
Last week, out of pure desperation, I went to a steakhouse-vibe restaurant by myself because it’s by the library where I work. I simply had an hour to kill. It turns out the steakhouse-vibe restaurant was an oyster bar and it was dollar oysters because it was 5 PM and a Tuesday. The bar employed many a salty seafood/seafaring book as decor. So even though I had not one, but two Purse Books with me, I picked up M. F. K. Fisher’s Consider the Oyster. I’ve read excerpts before, of course, but her tricks work on me every time.
Some of M. F. K. Fischer’s tricks below:
I love her, but not as much as she loves oysters and certainly not as much as I love oysters, which I think really makes us two-pearls-in-a-pod, don’t you?