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Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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things maysilee donner would've loved:

pushing drusilla down the escalator

kissing girls

cyberbullying

pinterest

selling handmade jewelry on etsy

johanna mason

CINNA.

judging people's outfits at the met gala

panem's next top model

and last but certainly not least: watching president snow die!!!

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We keep escaping parties to hang out with each other. Heartstopper, S01E03 - S02E06 - S03E04

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the most fun a girl can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, making connections, contemplating

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6/04/2024 - 6/06/2024

i had a 3 day weekend because there was a holiday on thursday! so i took advantage of it and got a lot done <3

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thursday:

- went to panera and did schoolwork from 11 am to 4 pm (there was a storm and the power went out for a few secs 🫨)

- went to a fireworks show in the evening with my boyfriend and smirnoff red white and berry

friday:

- finally charged my apple watch after like 6 months

- got a library card from my local library since i only had one from my hometown + did some schoolwork while i was there

- did some laundry <3

saturday:

- went on a 2 mile hike (hiking u r the loml)

- did more schoolwork from about 1 pm to 4:30 at a local coffee shop

- met some of my boyfriend’s family

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playlist:

- stephanie says by the velvet underground

- room temperature by faye webster

- a werewolf by attic abasement

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mid-year wrap up of what i’ve read so far 🫶 i added a cut bc it’s pretty long

except for my last book in june, i honestly haven’t been very impressed by anything i’ve read so far this year. a lot of my reads were good but none were 5 stars. tldr: read the emperor’s soul by brandon sanderson.

i was in a major reading slump this winter so i didn’t read any books in january, february, or march.

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april:

my body by emily ratajkowski

this was very good! i didn’t vibe with it completely at the beginning but her writing style is very beautiful just like her 🤍 i listened to this as an audiobook, which is how i like to read most memoirs

skyward series by brandon sanderson (skyward, starsight, sunreach, redawn, cytonic, evershore, hyperthief, defiant)

i love brandon sanderson but i don’t fw his young adult books. i personally don’t vibe with ya anyway and i think sanderson has trouble with less complex/ya storylines. i was worried that the fight scenes would be boring because they’re fighting in spaceships but the sci-fi aspects were good! and the writing was good. the story just wasn’t giving what brandon is capable of giving.

macbeth by shakespeare

romeo romeo wherefore art thou romeo

crying in h-mart by michelle zauner

i love japanese breakfast and this memoir added so much heart to songs that are already very emotional for me. if you listen to japanese breakfast then you should read this book. it wasn’t necessarily a book that i couldn’t put down, i wish i listened to this as an audiobook instead. however i finished the last probably 20% in one sitting on mother’s day and immediately started watching some interviews of michelle zauner talking about her band and the book and then i gifted my copy of the book to my mother.

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may:

the reckoners series by brandon sanderson (steelheart, mitosis, firefight, calamity, lux)

this series was surprisingly sexist for sanderson. most of his books that i’ve read have had female protagonists but the reckoners follows a man the entire time. the first book was intensely masculine, with david constantly looking at and thinking about megan’s body and only two women in the team, one of which is the love interest and the other barely being a character. the second book moved to a new location and added some new women characters and a female villain but still included moments like when david got danced on by a ‘bodacious’ woman and he compared her sensuality to megan’s tomboyish not-like-other-girls-ness and how he likes megan more than the ‘busty/curvy’ girl. very weird. i liked lux but i would definitely recommend any of sanderson’s adult fantasy books over any of his young adult books that i’ve read.

swimming in the dark by tomasz jedrowski

not the best book i’ve read and not the best lgbtq+ book i’ve read but the plot and writing were good! this book follows two young men in 1980’s poland as they develop feelings for each other under a government + in a time where it’s not really allowed. it’s a very short book so i would recommend it if you’re looking for a short emotional summer read.

the garden of time by j. g. ballard

read bc this was the met gala theme haha. i like short stories a lot and this one was very very good! there are a lot of ways to interpret this short fantastical story so this is a good story to read with a few friends and discuss like a mini book club! this was one of my top fav books of the year (it’s unfortunate that it’s only like 10 pages).

norwegian wood by haruki murakami

i’ve read norwegian wood twice and the plot has never really stuck with me but instead a lot of the simpler moments and ideas have. i first read this a couple of years ago and it was my first murakami book. i was thinking a lot about my gender at the time and this book is very masculine, which was a major plus for me at the time. since then, i’ve read more murakami books and i realized that i wish norwegian wood was a little bit more fantastical. not necessarily magical realism like his other books but i wish the ambiguousness in the ending was the vibe throughout more of the book. which is the complete opposite of how i felt on my first read, i loved how straightforward the book and toru’s character and worldview was.

a wrinkle in time by madeleine l’engle

cute. i wanted to read this very bad when i was a child but i didn’t have access to it and now i’ve read it 🤍

looking for alaska by john green

they could never make me hate john green. i wasn’t as feral about this now as i was when i was 14 but i still adore this book. the reader’s guide introduced me to stephanie says by the velvet underground which is probably going to be my top song this year.

the catcher in the rye by j. d. salinger

similar vibes to norwegian wood. i’ve read this twice and the first time i really liked how masculine and young this book felt. now that i’m older, i still really adore it.

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june:

one true loves by taylor jenkins reid

this concept was very cool but i’m not obsessed with the execution. it reads like sally rooney’s normal people in how there’s little stories for each time period to show how the characters feel about each other but since that writing style is purposely fleeting i felt like it lacked depth for this intense story about grief. i also wish she saw olive more after high school. i did like the ideas in this book but the actual writing was not for me.

an enchanting case of spirits

i did not like this. the main character had an attitude for no reason, every side character was trying to help her out and she had a snarky comment about literally everything anyone said. the enemies to lovers was extremely forced, she hated her neighbor because when her fiancé passed away, he took her trash to the curb and back to the house for her. also fuck cops.

the invention of nature: alexander von humboldt’s new world by andrea wulf

this was surprisingly interesting. i listened to this as an audiobook, mainly for while i was driving. i think if i read it physically i would’ve gotten kind of bored but as a little podcast i was obsessed. i love the author’s hook in the beginning got me very interested, especially when she mentions how he’s the person with the most landmasses named after him and how she explains at the end how he was so impactful but not many people in the modern day know about him.

eragon by christopher paolini

the beginning and the end dragged but through the time that they’re actually on the road traveling i had a good time. this is not the best fantasy book ever but it’s alright.

none of this is true by lisa jewel

the first two sections were veryy addicting, i read this book in one day. however, the third act fell so flat for me. and the middle dragged a tiny bit. i’ll try not to spoil anything but with thrillers like this it’s impossible to review them without giving some stuff away. so my least favorite part about this entire book is how walter’s character is handled. i thought it was disgusting and i couldn’t get past that at all. and i think the epilogue should’ve been much longer than 3 pages, especially since lisa jewel apparently confirmed it in an interview (very much trying not to spoil anything haha). if walter didn’t do what he did then i would have very different feelings towards this book but if lisa was trying to get across what she said in the epilogue, implying very different things about walter than what roxy and erin were saying, then she should’ve made that very clear imo. i like ambiguous endings a lot but not when it comes to stuff like that.

where the wild things are by maurice sendak

one of my fav books as a child. i read this bc i want to rewatch the movie.

nimona by nd stevenson

very cute! but honestly if you didn’t follow this story when it was a webtoon / aren’t obsessed with the movie then i would recommend the movie over the graphic novel.

beach read by emily henry

i loved this concept so much. emily henry’s writing is a little more tropey than i prefer but she is very talented! very very good debut novel.

the selection by kiera cass (+ the queen, the prince, and 25% of the elite)

i would have loved this as a trashy reality show summer read but the dystopian aspects completely completely turned me off of this. it was very much trying to be a “monarchies are good as long as the people in charge are nice :))” while also being a rags to riches “look at the big pretty dress” and the message just didn’t make sense.

the emperor’s soul by brandon sanderson

i would recommend this to literally every single person. it took me about few pages to get into but like wow. this is a very good introduction to sanderson because it’s a short novella that isn’t connected to any of his big series. i read this in literally one sitting because it’s so gripping. the themes on creation, being an artist in a greedy world, and what it means to be a person from the most basic parts of our personalities is just so. beautiful. amazing. gorgeous. and the ending prologue makes the beginning make so much sense if you’re familiar with the cosmere (but you aren’t missing anything by using this as an introduction to sanderson).

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me when a movie is bad: 👎

me when a movie is good: 👍

me when a movie is mediocre:

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Tracey Emin ‘My Bed’, 1998

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i'm so bored i need to make an excel sheet

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Mystery Inc. meet Holmes and Watson!

I am having a lot of fun with this Victorian Scooby Doo au!!

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i just watched challengers do you think i will ever be normal again

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knives out 4: ex disney channel original movie stars

knives out 5: the muppets

knives out 6: willem dafoe, noah centineo, judd apatow

knives out 7: scooby doo (animated)

knives out 8: dr. dre, natalia dyer

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the way that out of all of these the only book i read was fight club

currently reading:

fight club, the adventures of sherlock holmes, moby dick, the runelords, murder on the orient express

october + november tbr:

dracula, frankenstein, vladimir, the picture of dorian gray, vicious, the ex hex, the strange case of dr jeckyll and mr hyde

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currently reading:

the book of delights: essays by ross gay, educated by tara westover, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin reread

summer tbr:

beach read by emily henry, none of this is true by lisa jewel (my sister’s recommendation 🫶), tress of the emerald sea by brandon sanderson

i really want to buy an e-reader but idk which one to gettt. i’m considering buying an ipad mini and using that as an e-reader but i think the screens are a little bit different and the battery life is longer on an e-reader so idkkk. i’m so torn between kindle, kobo, and boox.

current playlist:

stephanie says by the velvet underground, jeremy by pearl jam, room temperature by faye webster, a werewolf by attic abasement

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phillip did what his exactly father said and forgot what his mother taught him :,((((