We’re closing our little library for the season. One of the joys of being its custodian is how books just magically appear — put there by its patrons. It’s like a very slow, human book recommendation algorithm. Today, I came across The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas, an author who’s new to me. 📚

The book’s worn dust jacket features a nude woman standing in a corridor with a candle — a detail from the painting Chrysis by Paul Delvaux.