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also started reading bell hooks all about love
May 7, 2024
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since i deleted/deactivated my book related social media. i think i’ll be posting more bookish content on here. things like reviews, recs, updates, etc.
so without further ado, here’s the first one! i’m currently reading a spy in the house of love (1954) by anais nin. i’m about 70 pgs in. it’s my first nin novel, and so far i’m into it. her prose transports me, i feel like i can envision the characters’ worlds and feel their emotions.
i started reading it around jan 12th and i haven’t picked it back up since then, not because it’s a bad book, mostly life getting in the way. for instance, when i come home, the last thing i want to do is read. (i work with elementary school kids, so i’m usually exhausted haha) but i’m hoping to finish it by the end of this week.
anywho, this isn’t my first read of january. that was the novella first love (1860) by ivan turgenev. let me know if you want info about that one. i really liked it. if you read all this thanks! love ya :)
p.s. i checked out my copy from my uni library and it’s the 1959 print by swallow press. (i love old books!!!) and it has some unique and funky illustrations inside too (i wonder who the artist was?)
Jan 23, 2025
May 30, 2024
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truly felt like reading my own journals from when I was 18, 19, but infinitely more discerning and eloquent!
“O my self, I will be sincere, sincere to you, completely sincere.”
“I will suffer; that is all. I will be strong enough.”
“I take back everything; I give up all faithfulness … I would like to live! I am going to live ... I am giving myself up; I am letting everything collapse, and I will start over again with something else. I am no longer paying attention to moral values; I am no longer seeking to do something. I want to be, to be. My beloved self, on an evening of exaltation, I promised you I would love you well.”
Jan 26, 2024
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1. i think this idea is already embarassing
2. i dont have many people invite me to do things regularly so i guess i can have what i want
3. wait this is so embarrassing i feel
Apr 21, 2024
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as in having clear skin
Apr 9, 2024
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we get it you watched Tarantino one time and now you feel like filmmaking is the path for you but no you can’t since you have subjected yourself to an acceptable paying job. all jobs pay. i guess its just what you prefer … something all these men carry in common is that they feel that they have hidden something away in them that they will never get to express but i feel that takes away from my desire to express myself in filmmaking i dont think it matters that much but also like why…
ive been reading tiny beautiful things realizing that the thing that has bothered me about male perception is that female work is perceived as not universal
Apr 17, 2024