thought daughters… pay attention. I love to give gifts to my lovers, but I have lost some of my most treasured, most underlined books to flings. Matt: you owe me Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson, Birds of America by Lorrie Moore and The Idiot (Elif Batuman not Dostoevsky). Shane: you owe me The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Now, I only give my copies to friends or those I am (seriously) dating. Plus, a lovely friend gifted me a stamp so I WILL KNOW and I will FIND YOU!
Loan out your favorite to someone you cherish deeply. A friend of mine lent me "Into The Wild" by Jon Krakauer today and I actually loaned "Erasure" by Percival Everett to my crush last week
just bc you live together doesn’t mean you should share everything. his & hers (or his & his, etc) book copies enable very fun two person book clubs, a charming shelf worthy of noah’s arc, and the luxury of a spare copy to give away to a friend when asked.
not even underlining passages or w/e. Last week I took a 1969 pulpy Sartre paperback to a public lecture and I used that shit like a notebook. It’s free paper. Also very beautiful to lend out books to friends and see what they write in them. kill the bookshagger in your head
I probably eat three cans of chickpeas a week and one full cucumber a day. I think I'm so addicted to fruits and vegetables because it makes me closer to my ancestors (monkeys)
Deleted Hinge for the past 5 months because I'm trying out meeting people in "real life." So I'm basically invisible but have soooooo much free time. Now I can use my phone productively to play sudoku while I watch Succession.
