2023.08.03 // 22:50 cozy little bookstore near my friends' apartment in brooklyn
2023.01.28 // 15:19 i’m taking a first-person writing class this semester with an amazing professor, so i thought i’d read his book!
pic: east village, manhattan, n.y.
2023.01.23 // 13:59 reading more of how far the light reaches at my friend’s fav neighborhood coffeeshop
pic: over el dorado county, calif.
2023.01.17 // 13:20 more reading on the train :)) i’m going to miss the bay… will have to come back soon
pic: muir beach, marin co., calif.
2023.01.17 // 12:32 started a new book (sabrina imbler’s how far the light reaches) and loving it so far! so many parallels to my own life growing up in the bay area haha
pic: muir beach, marin co., calif.
2023.01.14 // 18:32 reading on the train again on the way up to the city! i finally finished didion’s the year of magical thinking today… that book’s sheer emotional impact is difficult to overstate. i’d love to write like that someday
pic: ocean beach, san francisco, calif.
2023.01.05 // 16:45 i always love reading on the train… yes i am still in my didion era
pic: the outer sunset, san francisco, calif.
2022.11.16 // 11:03 took a little day trip upstate for joan didion’s estate sale! they didn’t let me in during the auction (it was held virtually) but i got to chat with the agent and peek at the items
pic: hudson, n.y.
2022.11.10 // 14:49 finished the white album today! fall is the perfect season for reading in coffeeshops tbh
pic: abe lebewohl triangle, manhattan, n.y.
2022.06.01 // 13:16 reading and rereading in the brooklyn summer
pic: pratt institute, brooklyn, n.y.
2022.06.01 // 12:34 spring storms and studying old poems
pic: plumb beach, brooklyn, n.y.
2022.04.28 // 12:52 i’ve started keeping a new-to-me style of notebook, so naturally i wanted to take some notes on didion’s “on keeping a notebook”!
pic: central park, manhattan, n.y.
2022.02.22 // 04:09 coming home late at night after working on the school paper, then staying up even later and reading
🎵 snarky puppy — “tarova” // 📖 jennifer ackerman — the bird way
2022.02.14 // 19:55 reading didion on going home, and photos from going home for winter break
pics: butano state park, pescadero, calif.
2022.02.11 // 18:23 finally got a copy of slouching towards bethlehem and wow it’s incredible, as good as the various assorted didion i’ve read
pic: washington square north, manhattan, n.y.
2021.08.27 // 13:40
so i ended up finishing the road in like 2 days! it was a captivating and devastating read; i couldn’t put it down. i may be a mccarthy simp but i highly recommend
2021.08.27 // 12:57
finished one cormac mccarthy book and jumped right into another… anyone here read the road?