my goodreads

reading: The World Wasnt Ready For You; Justin Key | The Gift; Lewis Hyde (bookclub / audio+text) | The History of The Notebook;

read: The Hundred Years War on Palestine; Rashid Khalidi (audio+text) | This is How You Lose the Time War; Max Gladstone (+others) |

watching: DARK (german; netflix)

[ ] 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 George Lamming

[ ] 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

july reading

[ x ] 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

[ x ] the weary blues by Langston Hughes

[ x ] 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

[ x ] time is a mother by Ocean Vuong

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[ 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]

[ x ] martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

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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

Currently reading Poems by Hermann Hesse

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

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

[ ] 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