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A Book of Common Prayer - Joan Didion
Almond - Sohn Won-Pyung
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Jan 5, 2025
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📚Joan Didion.
Camila Sosa Villada.
Mona Awad.
Ottessa Moshfegh.
Yukio Mishima.
Mary Gaitskill.
Books I'm currently reading and liking so far:
A Little Life-Hanya Yanagihara.
Carmilla-Sheridan Le Fanu.
Hunger-MartÃn Caparrós.
Books I've read in the past and liked:
Mist-Miguel de Unamuno.
Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada.
Bunny-Mona Awad.
Death In Her Hands-Ottessa Moshfegh.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation-Ottessa Moshfegh.
Animal-Lisa Taddeo.
This Is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill.
Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs.
Cultish-Amanda Montell.
So You've Been Publicly Shamed-Jon Ronson.
Rosario Tijeras-Jorge Franco.
Educated-Tara Westover.
Maus-Art Spiegelman.
Books I'm currently reading and liking so far:
A Little Life-Hanya Yanagihara.
Carmilla-Sheridan Le Fanu.
Hunger-MartÃn Caparrós.
Books I've read in the past and liked:
Mist-Miguel de Unamuno.
Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada.
Bunny-Mona Awad.
Death In Her Hands-Ottessa Moshfegh.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation-Ottessa Moshfegh.
Animal-Lisa Taddeo.
This Is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill.
Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs.
Cultish-Amanda Montell.
So You've Been Publicly Shamed-Jon Ronson.
Rosario Tijeras-Jorge Franco.
Educated-Tara Westover.
Maus-Art Spiegelman.
Sep 24, 2024
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😃north woods by Daniel Mason
open throat by Henry Hoke
shark heart by Emily Habeck klara and the sun by Kazuo Ishiguro zero k by Don DeLillo anything by Toni Morrison
shark heart by Emily Habeck klara and the sun by Kazuo Ishiguro zero k by Don DeLillo anything by Toni Morrison
Sep 19, 2024
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📖About to finish what everyone calls Murakami’s magnum opus, and I do like it! But the way everyone glazes this thing, Idk I expected something revolutionary
I just finished Americanah by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, and it was a 10/10. The only writer whose descriptions of place + atmosphere are so vivid that I like the sentences as much as the exposition.
Next on the hit list is: - Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka - Their Eyes were watching God - Zora Neale Hurston - Chasing Cool by Noah Kerner and Gene Pressman - Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - the Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
I just finished Americanah by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, and it was a 10/10. The only writer whose descriptions of place + atmosphere are so vivid that I like the sentences as much as the exposition.
Next on the hit list is: - Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka - Their Eyes were watching God - Zora Neale Hurston - Chasing Cool by Noah Kerner and Gene Pressman - Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - the Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Jun 16, 2025
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idk how i came across this in my daily wikipedia surfs, but something about this painting just amuses me so much.
my first impression was this looks fairly modern in a way, possibly because of the composition and how she made her features so light and bouncy. it oddly made me think of disney when i looked for longer. then i see it was made in 1909 😂
this painting can transcend times and i wouldn’t truly know when it was made unless i looked more closely at the objects around the subject. but even that can be a stretch as vintage items can be popular amongst anyone and they can just have their vanity setup look like this.
i tried looking for photographs of her online but alas nothing came up with certainty.
my first impression was this looks fairly modern in a way, possibly because of the composition and how she made her features so light and bouncy. it oddly made me think of disney when i looked for longer. then i see it was made in 1909 😂
this painting can transcend times and i wouldn’t truly know when it was made unless i looked more closely at the objects around the subject. but even that can be a stretch as vintage items can be popular amongst anyone and they can just have their vanity setup look like this.
i tried looking for photographs of her online but alas nothing came up with certainty.
Apr 27, 2025
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i saw something on here a day ago about how fireflies are disappearing and lightly catastrophized the scenario. but then as i regulated myself i looked up an article lightly extinguishing my concerns.
so as i look at the copious little flickers out my window, ill be glad to tell you that while firefly populations are decreasing, some firefly species are adapting to new environments trying to prosper and evolve. big causes for their decline are obvi climate change, urbanization, and light pollution. a simple way for you to not make things bad for the fireflies in your area is to not use pesticides on your lawns if you have them. they spend most of their lives in the ground so it starts at the soil.
additionally, every article i see with the salacious title about “last generation to see fireflies“ seems to be blocking out a lot of things about current firefly populations. most of the fireflies on the IUCN red list they keep mentioning are marked vulnerable or least concern. so there is a possibility a species or more of fireflies may disappear, but all of them i don’t think so.
so as i look at the copious little flickers out my window, ill be glad to tell you that while firefly populations are decreasing, some firefly species are adapting to new environments trying to prosper and evolve. big causes for their decline are obvi climate change, urbanization, and light pollution. a simple way for you to not make things bad for the fireflies in your area is to not use pesticides on your lawns if you have them. they spend most of their lives in the ground so it starts at the soil.
additionally, every article i see with the salacious title about “last generation to see fireflies“ seems to be blocking out a lot of things about current firefly populations. most of the fireflies on the IUCN red list they keep mentioning are marked vulnerable or least concern. so there is a possibility a species or more of fireflies may disappear, but all of them i don’t think so.
Jun 19, 2025
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