Currently reading:
1. The Phoenix Empress - K. Arsenault Rivera. This is a re-read since I'm travelling & starting new books stresses me out when I travel. I love this series - you can't beat a lengthy fantasy/sapphic combo. 2. Welcome to Pawnee - Jim O'Heir. Not very far into this one yet but Parks & Rec is one of my favorite TV shows & to get an inside look into Pawnee & the production is interesting. It's like I'm meeting the characters & visiting Pawnee again for the first time.
I can be somewhat flighty with my books (reading based on mood) so usually have an extensive currently-reading pile which I’ll work to finish slowly until they’re due at the library:
Sag harbor, colson whitehead
Indelicacy, Amina Cain
Bad blood, John carreyrou
The other Americans, laila lalami
Fear of flying, Erica jong
Travelers to unimaginable lands, dasha kiper Once I’ve worked through those, id like to read:
james, percival Everett
The premonition, banana yoshimoto
What are you going through, sigrid nunez
hii!⭐️ these are the books i'm currently reading: - crime and punishment (fyodor dostoevsky)
- less is more: how degrowth will save the world (jason hickel)
- history (elsa morante)
- the copenhagen trilogy: childhood, youth, dependency (tove ditlevsen)
- beloved (toni morrison)
- pedagogy of the oppressed (paulo freire) i like reading multiple books at a time depending on how i feel, but when i'm about to finish one i usually focus on it until the end. up next: - intermezzo (sally rooney)
- the seven moons of maali almeida (shehan karunatilaka)
- an autobiography (angela y. davis)
- the light years (elizabeth jane howard)
- the forbidden notebook (alba de céspedes)
1. started reading this autobiographical graphic novel: persepolis by marjane satrapi - super cute illustrations and i know its going to make me feel so many emotions!!! 2. trying to get into more poetry with a river dies of thirst by mahmoud darwish - a palestinian poetry collection and im trying to savor every piece as much as possible 💓
For me, it would be the idea that the home is meant to be your safe space & things happening to threaten that frightens everyone. We don't like the idea that our safety can be compromised; especially by something like the occult or ghostly which we can't understand.
Why do companies add milk & eggs to things that don't need it!? They've changed the recipe of my favorite salad dressing to include egg protein (for why idk) so now I've had to buy the fat free version. I use this dressing to make my favorite comfort/safe food. I'm so worried that the fat free recipe will not taste the same or that they'll add egg to that one too. It sounds dramatic but my neurodivergent brain is not coping well with the idea of never being able to have this meal again. Why tf does Italian dressing need egg in it anyways???? Being vegan in a non-vegan world is so frustrating.