My Four Favourite Stories On Medium This Past Month

Top reads for January 2023

This is similar to my setup when I settle down to do some reading on Medium. Photo by Adrien Tutin on Unsplash.

I can spend several hours a day reading stories on Medium , diligently clicking through the (many) open tabs in my browser.

I can find reading on Medium easier than reading a novel although, since my previous post about (my struggles with) reading, I have managed to read novels again (hooray!).

Trying to Rediscover My Love of Reading and Three Medium Stories I Recently Read And Loved

I find most of my reading material via my Medium Daily Digest email and from the ‘more from Medium’ sidebar. If someone follows me, I’ll check out their stories.

Here are four stories of the best stories I read this month (Jan 2023).

First, we have My Memory Knows What it's Doing by Savala Nolan. This is an exploration of grief and memory that should hit anyone who has lost someone with a gut punch of recognition. I especially loved the author’s description of memory as:

a spontaneous improvisation, (that sometimes) plays the “wrong” notes. Notes that are anachronistic, not part of the current song.

And her conclusion that:

My memory is trying to tell me that the choreography of time is full of glitches about which we can do nothing, and maybe should do nothing.

This story was a ‘hit’ with readers, with one commenting that:

this might be the best commentary on grief I’ve ever read. You’ve found words for things I’ve been feeling and unable to articulate for years now.

I can only agree wholeheartedly with that comment!

I added this story to my reading list: home of my absolute favourite reads, stories I might like to share and re-read.

My Memory Knows What It’s Doing