Summer hopefuls 🍓
It's an ambitious list, so I don't know how many of them I'll manage to read till September.
But I'm up for the challenge!
Paperbacks:
• White Nights, Fëdor Dostoevskij
• Daisy Miller, Henry James
• Mr Salary, Sally Rooney
• Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
• Women in love, D.H. Lawrence
• Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
• Sappho of Lesbos, Alexander Trocchi
• Lady, Thomas Tryon
• The lady of the camellias, Alexander Dumas (fils)
• Senility, Italo Svevo
• Pillars of the earth by Ken Follett or The name of the rose by Umberto Eco...if I can manage! Not both obv 😅
eBooks:
• A little larger than the entire universe, Fernando Pessoa
• The honey suckle, Gabriele D'Annunzio
• A lover's discourse, Roland Barthes (paused, need to continue this!)
• Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
• Sonnets to Duse and other poems, Sara Teasdale
• The book of the city of ladies, Christine de Pizan
Then he looked up at her with that awful appeal in his full, glowing eyes. She was utterly incapable of resisting it. From her breast flowed the answering, immense yearning over him; she must give him anything, anything.
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
6 June 1926 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
[3/100] days of productivity
Today's Sunday, so...relax time. The only productive thing I did from my list was reading. Started this little book about Sappho that I found in a thrift store recently.
Obviously, I also did some house chores etc but I don't track that stuff here. Then I watched several episodes of Dark. So unsettling, tangled and raw. I'm addicted.
Started commonplacing and the first thing that came back is my writer's bump!
Current read + me wearing my bf shirts on repeat! 🔁 Men's shirts are my Roman empire.
Sometimes you just need to go to the bookstore to be surrounded by books. It's exciting and relaxing at the same time. No need to buy anything. Just smelling them and stare at the pretty covers.
I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.
- Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There
still thinking about white nights