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GOD

she’s steadily making her way into my favorite poets club

Jesus Christ okay. Yeah this has to be probably in my top 3 books ever. Clarice and Virginia are really just two sides of the same coin and I’m kind of embarrassed about how niche and similar the books I love the most are but…. Can’t help what speaks to ya I guess ☁️

Normalize taking 9 months to finish a book

This book is insane. So well-researched, and Naomi Klein is so good at taking really dense economic concepts and making it so that I (economically illiterate) can understand them. I think it took me so long to read because it’s genuinely stomach-churning. But so worth it, and I feel like it really gave me a deeper understanding of global capitalism/US interventionism/etc

This lost me sometimes in its jargony academic language but when it hit…. Wow. The second part, “girl online,” on blogging/confessional writing…. Was everything I’ve been aching for the words to explain for the past couple years. (stream the contortionist haha lol). One of the books that makes you want to cry because you identify with it so strongly (which I think Walsh would have some interesting things to say about…. The desire to be seen and to identify yourself /with/ media as an act of self definition yadda yadda yadda…)

Last three essays weren’t my fav but the first two memoirs… <3 really gave context for my favorite novels, seeing how much of to the lighthouse was autobiographical based on her relationship with her parents and how much inspiration she took from her disdain for the atmosphere she was raised in for mrs dalloway. Really cool, personal writings from someone whose fiction I love so much. I’ve also adopted the idea of “moments of being” into my lexicon— I used to call these my “Mary Oliver moments.” Moments when you feel alive and full of clarity and in communion with the world— I love that she calls them moments of Being and I will be explaining that to anyone I ever go on a walk with for the rest of time :-)