Lately.
me wanting to build my own library at home:
current reads:
• Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates
• Sappho of Lesbos by Alexander Trocchi
• The Triumph of Death by Gabriele D'Annunzio
• The Dead City by Gabriele D'Annunzio
IN 150 CHARACTERS OR LESS - Nikita Gill
Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, dated 23 December 1881
Demonology
A Question of Free Will: Inside the Final Days of Katherine Mansfield
The Humiliating Act of Falling In Love
How to read a painting
When Horror Is the Truth-teller
Love Is Like Cocaine
Lizzie Siddal: The life of a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel
Joan Didion Against a Performative Life
Women drawing nudes: a history of forbidden bodies
How midlife became a crisis
and more to come!
[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.
first of june
[2/100] days of productivity
Brushing up my French skills with this book by Michèle Thomasson. It is a little collection of his journal entries. I think I can manage, little by little. Low commitment, but effective.
paintings details and words from the art exhibit I visited this morning.