Original edition
Sunset · full color
The sunset, sea and fire, in the thebookesh colors.
$13.99 · paperback
Buy on AmazonA slow reading diary
Every line a spark.
Some sentences stop you. You read them twice, underline them, and carry them for days. thebookesh shares those lines, and makes journals for keeping your own.
The journals
The Lines I Kept
A reading journal for the passages that stop you. Every book gets its own spread: one page for the book, one for the sentences that stopped you, and why.
Blood Red & Gold
Gift edition
Deep red with a gold sunset mark, like a leather-bound book.
Coming soon- Room for 52 books, one every week
- Reading goals and a daily tracker
- A yearly log and a to-be-read list
- Pages to collect the lines you kept
- Notes and My Year in Books
- 6 × 9 in, 132 pages, easy to carry
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esh · Hebrew for fire
About the name
Book, and fire.
Every evening the sun meets the sea and catches fire. Some lines in a book do the same thing to you. thebookesh is a slow reading diary of those lines: real books, real light, and pencil underlines.
The books lean toward Jewish thought, Chassidic stories and the kind of writing you reread. Each post shares one passage and why it stayed.
A recent line
“If so, I shall start for you a new dynasty . . .”
Live on Twitch
Read with me.
Calm reading streams with one passage at a time and a conversation about it. At the end of each stream, chat picks the line of the night.