#honesty box

abby im kissing you on the head (if consensual). a small selection of fiction faves (but tbh i have a lot more non-fiction faves):

1. one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez (magical realism - its just so damn weird)

2. a little life - hanya yanagihara (will never recommend this book to anyone but i have never BEEN in such raw pain from a book before)

3. red white and royal blue - casey mcquiston (for obvious reasons)

4. winters orbit - everina maxwell (the forest scene. you will always live w me. kiem my angel 💫)

5. wolf hall - hilary mantel (power, history and politics yes pls)

6. chronicle of a death foretold - gabriel garcia marquez (I love GGM can you tell)

Day 2293, 2 October 2024

Honey for sale

~ Honesty box

~ An honesty box is a method of charging for a service or a product such as home-grown produce and flowers, which relies upon each visitor paying at a box using the honour system. Such sites are usually unattended

Hands up if you've bought stuff from an honesty box? This particular one that we found this week was selling FIVE different types of homemade cakes!!

this would never happen holly because a) i can't act to save my life (no, seriously. surfer dude #2 in the school play was a bust), and b) if i was even within a 50m radius of glen i think i would just keel over and die

so I guess if I just wasnt myself it would be some kind of silly rom com because that's what i love glen in the most and also we could kiss

(you write the script bb)

hi sam, beloved!!

i'm actually a much bigger consumer of non-fiction reads, believe it or not! i find they don't fuck with my writing as much. that being said, i go through phases, so these might seem a little out of pocket because they're just the ones on the brain!

eggshell skull - bri lee (a judge's associate returns to the legal system as the complainant in her own case of csa - does a great job of portraying how impossible the justice system can be to navigate, even when you are intimately aware of the justice system). TW: csa, ed descriptions, self-harm.

flawed hero - chris masters (follows the defamation proceedings brought by a highly decorated SAS soldier against two australian reporters and their employer - covers both the damning evidence of war crimes and the psychological toll of a defamation proceeding on the parties, witnesses and those seeking justice). TW: descriptions of war crimes, violence.

long walk to freedom - nelson mandela (autobiography of nelson mandela from youth to becoming president, including his imprisonment - i read this a long time ago but it left such an impression on me because of mandela's sheer perseverance in the face of so much adversity). TW: racism, violence.

educated - tara westover (follows a woman growing up in a family of survivalist mormons - i know a lot of people don't like this book, but as someone who grew up in religion i found parts of it very haunting, and other parts inspiring). TW: abuse, neglect.

shoe dog - phil knight (memoir by the creator of nike. yeah i knowwww corporate america! but i liked how gritty this was and how it didn't try to be a 5-step how-to guide for overnight millions. i really loved the parts about nike signing rogue athletes and hoping for the best!).

there are heaps more and these aren't necessarily my FAVOURITES (that being said i've read most of these more than once so...)