SURPRISE

By Mies Van Hout (Lemniscaat, 2013) I love when I discover a book that’s more than a decade old in a first-run bookstore. So often, shelf life is so short. It’s a fast read. Fourteen words, including the title. But, reading is not a race—except when I read Green Eggs and Ham . This is a book I have paged through many times, sometimes lingering on every page, sometimes letting just a few stand out.…