An Ode to The Table of Contents

Substack is filled with book lovers, so I probably don’t need to overstate this, but . . .

When I was growing up, buying brand new CDs was a treasured ritual (In case a non-millennial is reading this: CDs were these round discs that played music because we couldn’t stream music. You could even “burn” music onto blank CDs, creating the perfect playlist for your friend or your crush. Wild!). 

Anyway, I'd unwrap the plastic, slide out the shiny d…