Bookmarked Moments is my weekly literary letter on Substack — a quiet companion to The Ritual of Reading.
Each article begins with something underlined or dog-eared in the margins of a book, a quote that lingers there a little longer, unfolding into reflection, memory, or mood. These are not reviews, but meditations on what it feels like to live with books — how a character’s voice carries into daily life, how a single line shifts the light of a week, how reading becomes ritual.
Here you’ll find the most recent letters gathered together through the live feed below. Think of this page as a bridge: between the immersive guides and essays of The Ritual of Reading and the more intimate pace of a weekly note.
If you’d like these letters to arrive directly in your inbox, you can subscribe to Bookmarked Moments on Substack (completely free) — and let them become part of your own reading ritual.
Latest Articles :
- What a community becomes when it keeps its bookshops alive
by The Ritual of Reading on 26 July 2026 at 7h01Notes from two Normandy villages and the bookshops that made me fall in love with them
- I built a world I was too careful to live in publiclyby The Ritual of Reading on 1 July 2026 at 19h43
On turning The Ritual of Reading inside out, starting today
- Notes on a week spent in the darkby The Ritual of Reading on 27 June 2026 at 14h57
Six days of darkness, five books and one newspaper about desire
- Something is coming for the Solsticeby The Ritual of Reading on 9 June 2026 at 7h01
The Summer Reading Ritual returns, and this year it’s taking me somewhere new
- Everything Is an Invitation: On Living Like a Creatorby The Ritual of Reading on 3 June 2026 at 17h01
A reflection on Jean-Claude Ellena, chosen solitude and the art of paying attention
- What the Tastebuds Know Firstby The Ritual of Reading on 5 May 2026 at 19h50
Reading Marlena de Blasi’s “The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club”
