A friend sent me an email late last night. The subject line read: “got out of bed.” The contents read:

and came upstairs and fired up my computer to tell you:

Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook. her 1971 Introduction in the Vintage edition. Criticism of the educational system and what it does to people. Oh Kim, you must read it.

p.s. whoops. make that the Harper Perennial edition.

I was pleased to find the book already on my bookshelf, so I followed my friend’s instructions and read it over breakfast. It’s a delightful introduction.

Here’s my favorite part, which is hypothetically addressing every child within the school system: Read more »