my favourite!
May 2025 wrap-up
The Closed Doors by Pauline Albanese - 4/5
The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras - 4/5
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas - 4/5
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese - 5/5
Among Women Only by Cesare Pavese - 5/5
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch - 5/5
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart - 4.25/5
10 Days in a Mad House by Nellie Bly - 4/5
wonderful reading month!
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[8/100] days of productivity
worked on some articles for my Substack, made a lot of progress with Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates (this book is...devastating and kinda traumatic), did house chores, and went for a walk.
Milena Jesenská’s obituary for Franz Kafka
btw the majority of your life will be lived as a adult. yeah i don't make the rules. go have fun in your 40s or 70s or whatever. no one expects you to accomplish everything at 17 or 27. you've got time and in the meantime get some life experience, it will pay off
[7/100] days of productivity
worked on my May wrap-up article for my Substack, that will be out tomorrow, read A LOT (I'm currently juggling 4 books), and rearranged my bookshelf.
[16/100] days of productivity
Finally decided to tackle reading something by Fernando Pessoa. I don't know why but his most popular one, The Book of Disquiet, intimidates me so much, so I decided to start with his poetry. So far so good. Exquisite, I should say!
[9/100] days of productivity
Read...A LOT.
and that's all.