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book list by black authors 🀣

[ ] the first woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

[ ] the death of vivek oji by Akwaeke Emezi

[ ] i do not come to you by chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

[ ] butter honey pig bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi

[ ] in the castle of my skin by

[ ] the spider kings daughter by Chibundu Oruzo

[ ] how the one-arm sister sweeps her house by Cherie Jones

[ ] the mermaid of black conch by Monique Roffey

[ ] here comes the sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

[ ] in the castle of my skin by George Lamming

[ ] the secret lives of baba segi’s wives by Lola Shoneyin

[ ] she would be king by Wayetu Moore

[ ] everything inside by Edwidge Danticat

[ ] what storm, what thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy

[ ] under the udala trees by Chinelo Okparanta

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words. (in progress)

week of 060724 ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

omnipotent

decadent

incredulous

audacious

genial

demure

cadaverous (adj.)

very pale, thin, or bony |

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words. (in progress)

week of 062424 ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

egregious (adj.)

especially; conspicuously bad | the student's theme was marred by egregious errors in spelling | synonymous: flagrant. conspicuous. blatant.

altruism

auspicious

incantation

frivolous

conduit

indicative

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THE AUGUST LIST ｡𖦹°‧

july reading

[ ] the world wasn’t ready for you by Justin C. Key

[ ] never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

[ ] the undiscovered self by C. G. Jung

[ ] giovanni’s room by James Baldwin

[ ] the master and the margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[ ] open water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

[ ] blue period, Vol. 3 by Tsubasa Yamaguchi

[ … ] the weary blues by Langston Hughes

[ … ] in limbo by Deb J.J. Lee

[ … ] when they tell you to be good by Prince Shakur

[ ] neighbors and other stories by Diane Oliver

[ x ] a man and his cat, Vol. 2 by Umi Sakurai

[ ] time is a mother by Ocean Vuong

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{ x = read | … = reading }

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Jacob fighting the angel (detail) by Jürgen Ovens, 17th century.

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THE JULY LIST ｡𖦹°‧

[ building off my june tbr ]

[ x ] first love by Ivan Turgenev [read x1]

[ x ] maus I & maus II by Art Spiegelman

[ x ] hp lovecraft’s the hound and other stories by Gou Tanabe

[ x ] atomic habits (audio) by James Clear

[ x ] a man and his cat, Vol 1 by Umi Sakurai

[ x ] i’m glad my mom died (audio) by Jennette McCurdy

[ x ] chef’s kiss by Jarrett Melendez

[ x ] blue period (vol. 2) by Tsubasa Yamaguchi

[ x ] blue period (vol. 1) by Tsubasa Yamaguchi [read x1]

[ … ] martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

[ ] neighbors and other stories by Diane Oliver

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{ x = read | … = reading }

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days of productivity

062924 ; saturday

written the night before;

wake up, hydrate, hygiene

cook (potatoes and vegan steak tips + boiled eggs)

get laundry ready

to the vet at 8:00am

fold clothes

vacuum & sweep

study korean for an hour at least

take books back to the library

writing (+outlines of study plans / routines)

straighten room & around the house

after the fact & what i actually did;

woke around 6:30am

light breakfast (banana + grapes)

hygiene, hydrate

laundry

to the vet ( drop off )

home + writing in cpb

back to the vet ( shitty outcome, not feeling other plans )

to the library ( new books! )

late dinner

끝!

💿: Love Song From “Apache” by Coleman Hawkins Quartet

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Currently reading Poems by Hermann Hesse

[ I Know, You Walk - Ich weiss, du gehst - 1899 ]

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Dall'ombra. 2021. Roberto Ferri

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Would it been better if I didn't know you?

'Cause every feeling I did feel is so true

I just hope that you remember me

The best grave in your symmetry

You know you got the best of me

- RM. ?. Right Place, Wrong Person. 2024.

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Winter landscape in the sunset. Adolf Gustav Schweitzer.

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Joseph Mallord William Turner. The Lake of Zug. 1843

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accumulated book list; unowned ㅤᵕ̈ [ list two ]

from my common place book

[ ] the blind watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

[ ] mortality by Christopher E. Hitchens

[ ] god is not great by Christopher E. Hitchens

[ ] paradox by Jim Al-Khalili

[ ] a short history … by Bill Bryson

[ ] a universe from nothing by Lawrence Krauss

[ ] afterglow of creation by Marcus Chown

[ ] the wren, the wren by Anne Enright

[ ] rainbow milk by Paul Mendes

[ ] tokyo ueno station by Yu Miri

[ ] manorism by Yomi Sode

[ ] slow days, fast company by Eve Babitz

[ ] milk fed by Melissa Broder

[ ] upstream by Mary Oliver

[ ] the consolation of philosophy by Boethius

[ ] the creative art: … by Rick Rubin

[ ] the death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy

[ ] no one belongs here more than you by Miranda July

[ ] alone with you in the ether by Olivie Blake

[ ] the automatic fetish by Beverley Best

[ ] the whole picture by Alice Procter

[ ] house of idols by Choi In-Hoon

[ ] the moon that turns you back by Hala Alyan

[ ] human acts by Han Kang

[ ] on beauty by Zadie Smith

[ ] love in the big city by Sang Young Park

[ ] Franz Kafka's Diaries

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Currently reading The Stranger by Albert Camus - ☀︎

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The Sound of Silence. 2019. Yayu ☀︎

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Adhan Time in Istanbul. Halid Naci ☼

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accumulating book list; unowned ᡣ𐭩 [ list one ]

[ ] parable of the sower by Octavia E. Butler

[ ] alone with you in the ether by Olivie Blake

[ ] isaac and the egg by Bobby Palmer

[ ] an olive grove in ends by Moses Mckenzie

[ ] the view was exhausting by Mikaelle Clements & Onjuli Datta

[ ] what we want by Charlotte Fox Weber

[ ] the comfort book by Matt Haig

[ ] book of night by Holly Black

[ ] the dangers of smoking in bed by Mariana Enriquez

[ ] the hearing test by Eliza Callahan

[ ] hit parade of tears: stories by Izumi Suzuki

[ ] bright dead things by Ada Limón

[ ] bunny by Mona Awad

[ ] exteriors by Anne Ernaux

[ ] Recitatif by Toni Morrison

[ ] The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

[ ] the handmaids tale by Margaret Atwood

[ ] yerba buena by Nina Lacour

[ ] outline by Rachel Cusk

[ ] discourse on colonialism by Aime Cesaire

[ ] the architecture of happiness by Alain de Botton

[ ] darling girl by Liz Michalski

[ ] the details by Ia Genberg

[ ] the sleepless moon by H.E Bates

[ ] reading voices by Garrett Stewart

[ ] all the lovers in the night by Mieko Kawakami

[ ] passing by Nella Larsen

[ ] Illusions by Richard Bach

[ ] grief is for people by Sloane Crosley

[ l ] when breath becomes air by Paul Kalanith

[ ] by Grand Central Station I sat down and wept by Elizabeth Smart

[ ] and then? and then? what else? a writer's life by Daniel Handler

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bought = b | loaned = l , read = x | reading = …