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a beautiful book exploring love, loss, grief, and other deeply personal experiences through the colour blue.
I recently reread this book and fell in love with it again. It felt like I was reading a completely different book compared to when I read it a few years ago. I think that’s due to my growth as a person and the experiences I’ve had between the last read and when I read it now. I imagine that if I were to pick it up again 10 years from now, it would feel different again. It grows with you.
It’s hard not to get teary eyed.
“trying not to think about you, about my having lost you. but how can it be? how can it be? was I too blue for you. was I too blue.”
Mar 20, 2024
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I was mostly interested in this initally because of my own connection to the color blue, this did not disappoint whatsoever. A beautiful memoir of love, lust and loss and self exploration all while she’s in almost a manic state over the color blue. The format may not be for everyone but I loved it as someone who is particular with poetry. the short paragraph style made me really sit and reread what she was saying. All around so beautiful, definitely vulgar lol but i’m always rereading this book for comfort!
Mar 12, 2025
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devastatingly short but conveniently so since I return to it often
I said wow out loud maaany many times while reading it is just perfection!!
Mar 12, 2024
both by Toni Morrison. More heavy, intense, uncompromising than the descriptors in the ask but close enough – any opportunity to rec Toni Morrison simply must be taken. She writes characters like no one else – incredibly full of life. She writes about the complex experience of blackness and of girlhood/womanhood with incredible candor and care. It’s both extremely personal and always political.
TW: probably everything, so please be wary if you have sensitivities to traumatic shit.
May 13, 2024
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I‘m wondering why we stopped having blogs and writing essays? I want to hear people’s thoughts. I want to share my thoughts! and I don’t want to see these thoughts in a few sentences on twitter or a short Instagram post. I need a 1000+ word essay with images, links, references, book recs, and everything else. I wanna know what’s going on inside your brain.
Feb 20, 2024
I need to share this list I made because it is such a blessing to me that I can just open youtube or vimeo and watch these lovely little movies. there’s a range of them like bergman, tarkovsky, polish films, art-house, weird matthew gray gubler short, experimental horror, short films from the 20’s. how fun.
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