Books Read/Reread, March/April 2023
Polina Barskova, Living Pictures
Martin McDonagh, The Pillow Man
Allison C. Meier, Grave
Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Borealis
Susan Howe, Concordance
Rachel Cusk, Coventry
Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or, a Life of Montaigne
Nona Fernández, Voyager: Constellations of Memory
Dorothe Nors, A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Rosemarie Garland Thomson (ed.), Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body*
Catherine Prendergast, The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America
Vincent Brown, Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Kenzaburo Oē, A Personal Matter*
Kenazburo Oē, The Silent Cry*
Joseph Osmundson, Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead and the Small Things in Between
Geoff Dyer, The Last Days of Roger Federer and Other Endings
Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Erik R. Seeman, Speaking with the Dead in Early America
Susan Sontag (ed.), The Best American Essays, 1992
* = reread
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𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 !
tag twenty-one people you’d like to know better
some questions may be ‘ ??? ’ instead of answered
01. nickname: Addy or Stars on discord
02. real name: Guess :)
03. zodiac: I don’t believe in this kinda stuff, sorry
04. height: 5′2″
05. what time is it: It’s currently 4:06pm right now and I just got out of my plant ecophys class :3
06. favorite musicians/groups: Ehhh, I’m not really into this stuff/don’t really follow a particular band BUT I like reminiscent music, adventure type or classical such as Canon in D
07. favorite sports team: Don’t really like sports but I do love figure skating. I got to meet Polina Edmunds once and actually skated in the same rink as her for some time cause we lived in the same area (and yes, I gots her autograph :) Fav is Yuzuru Hanyu if that counds
08. other blogs: Yep! I have an art blog that is somewhat inactive atm
09. do i get asks?: Yeah, sometimes!
10. how many blogs do i follow?: 11
11. any tumblr crushes: Nah
12. lucky number: Nah
13. what am i wearing right now?: Canada sweatpants, a Hollister sweater and a blanket like jacket?
14. dream vacation: Maybe to Brazil so I could obsess over all the plants there. Or maybe up to Yellowknife to see the aurora borealis
15. dream car: Nah
16. favorite food: The steak and arugula sandwich from Panera Bread. I once ordered ONLY this for almost 6 months from the cafe, once a day, and then I got sick of it.
17. drink of choice: Timmie’s hot choco
18. languages: English but technically my first language was Cantonese. Honestly forgot more than half the stuff from it now but I can still communicate fine
19. instruments: Piano, as any good Asian child knows
20. celebrity crushes: Tom Holland
21. random fact: In my first year of university, I kept a window in my dorm open alllll winter. I didn’t have a balcony but there was a small ledge outside, just thick enough for put small boxes on. Because I live in Canada, I’d simply put my food tubberwares there and it served as my personal fridge. I didn’t have to go to the communal fridges anymore but I still had to use the microwave to heat up my food.
Until an RA spotted my foods up there (I was on the 3rd floor) but by that time, it was like March and I’d been doing it since November lmao
Stolen from: @pushspacetocontinue
Tagging: Anyone who wants to do this!
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