https://www.nonpunctual.org/categories/essay/Recent content in Essay on nonpunctualHugoenMon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.nonpunctual.org/posts/books/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.nonpunctual.org/posts/books/<p>There is a wonderful book by Stuart Kelly that is exactly the kind of book I love - it&rsquo;s about lost books. It is unironically entitled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Lost-Books-Kelly-Stuart/dp/0670914991" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&ldquo;The Book Of Lost Books&rdquo;</a>. I can&rsquo;t recommend it enough. It&rsquo;s perfect for summer beach reading.</p> <figure><img src="https://www.nonpunctual.org/images/lostbooks.jpg" alt="Book Of Lost Books"> </figure> <p>This is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_literary_work" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">well-known literary category</a> &amp; &ldquo;The Book Of Lost Books&rdquo;, without being exhaustively comprehensive, does an amazing job of covering all the cases that are commonly known (like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Library of Alexandria</a>) &amp; a bunch I never knew about. The story of a young <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ernest Hemingway</a> losing a trunk filled with <em>EVERYTHING HE&rsquo;D EVER WRITTEN</em> on the platform of a train station is particularly maddening. I think I get the same pleasure from this kind of story that some people get from reality TV or soap operas: cringe tension. Allegedly, his wife was to blame. Relationships are hard&hellip;</p>