Book 50: A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker And what a lovely way to officially complete the 50 Book Challenge. It's a series of meditations, each one representing one early morning, one fire built, one coffee drunk, one match used from the box. The narrator uses this solitary routine to give him space to ponder on the minutiae of family life, but in the small things are contained some terribly sad and beautiful insights about transience and mortality. I preferred this to Baker's The Mezzanine which was similarly concerned with the unregarded moments of daily life, but somehow more flippant and neurotic. Whereas A Box of Matches had me crying into my morning muesli on more than one occasion.
True Love and High Adventure
