Do you remember your first crush? I was fifteen, and utterly smitten by an American boy I’d met at summer camp. He was nineteen and probably just trying to be nice to the weird Canadian girl who kept hanging around, but in my dreams we were soulmates. I got hold of his address at the end of the week and immediately wrote him a long rambling letter talking about all my favorite books. And to my delight, he wrote back to recommend one of his: G.K. Chesterton’s THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. . Reader, I hunted it down and read it immediately. It was the strangest thing I’d read since Lewis Carroll and I wasn’t at all sure I understood it, but its unique blend of philosophical seriousness, bizarre humour and madcap quasi-allegorical adventure entranced me. Suffice it to say that the book far outlasted our rather one-sided relationship, because I’ve read it several times since and now consider it one of the #booksthatmademe. . I still don’t know that I understand it. I love it anyway. Here’s one of my favorite bits, which is probably best enjoyed in context but I can’t resist sharing anyway: "God bless my soul!" said the Professor with the elderly manner that he could never disconnect from his bleached beard and parchment face. "God bless my soul! I seemed to fancy that something fell on the top of my hat!" He put up a trembling hand and took from that shelf a piece of twisted paper, which he opened absently only to find it inscribed with a true lover's knot and, the words:-- "Your beauty has not left me indifferent.--From LITTLE SNOWDROP." Have you read any G.K Chesterton? Which book of his is your favorite? . . . #themanwhowasthursday #gkchesterton #bookstagram #bookish #bookworm #booknerd #booklover #bookgram #igreads #bookishfeatures #bibliophile #bookstagrammer #classicfiction #detectivefiction #spynovel #thrillers #mysterynovels #classicmystery https://www.instagram.com/p/B_3dc1QAhZW/?igshid=11wjodks6f7aw
