Welcome to The Book Dialogue
Join Sarah and Rebecca in the first podcast of 2022 – the Season 3 opener of The Book Dialogue is a celebration of the work of Rachel Kadish’s book “The Weight of Ink.” Warning — no spoilers – just a great conversation!
After listening, you’ll want to run out and pick up a copy. This is a book that must be on your reading list for 2022! We’d love to hear what you think!
Thank you for listening in!

“Our life is a walk in the night, we know not how great the distance to the dawn that awaits us. And the path is strewn with stumbling blocks and our bodies are grown tyrannous with weeping yet we lift our feet. We lift our feet.”
Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

Welcome back to the Book Dialogue! I am very happy to see its return. I enjoyed this discussion of The Weight of Ink. The book sounds like one I would enjoy.
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I think that you would be very interested in this book. I had read that Spinoza (yes – he is in the book too) was an outlier, but this book brought that time alive for me. If you have time, I think that you would enjoy this read on JSTOR but it is a long, long read: https://daily.jstor.org/summoning-17th-century-scholars-researching-the-weight-of-ink/
I understand it took her 10 years to write The Weight of Ink. My gratitude to writer and poets!! Their long hours with pen and paper or typewriter or computer, is a gift to readers.
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I think War and Peace is about the only long, long read I’m up for right now! However, your comment did jog my memory that I need to work on JSTOR research in the near future for my novel-in-progress.
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Oh no – I meant the article. LOL The Weight of Ink is not War and Peace. Promise!!! JSTOR is an amazing resource isn’t it!!
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Oops! 😀 Yes, I’m looking forward to delving into JSTOR. (I’m still on a bit of a Library of Congress high!)
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Love this but the best part is two sisters in the same room! You can’t imagine how good that image is.
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