I finished my first audiobook this week.

The first thing I did afterwards was buy the paperback.

Not because I wanted to read it again.

I’d just spent thirteen hours doing exactly that.

So why?

I realised I wanted to know where the final chapter was.
I wanted to underline a paragraph.
I wanted to know I could return to it a year from now and find it exactly where I’d left it.

That’s how I remember.

Not just through ideas, but through geography.

I wasn’t buying the story.

I was giving those ideas an address.

Do some ideas need an address?

P.S. The book is Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Zadie Smith’s endorsement on the cover reads:“Should of course simply be called C**ts… well worth your time.”

I couldn’t put it better myself.