Luigi Rossi - Primavera (detail)

wednesday

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

Pages from the diary of Lady Ottoline Morrell (feat. Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot), from Garsington May 27 (1926)

i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

[15/100] days of productivity

Did research for some articles for my Substack, wrote one, and read a lot while enjoying a delicious afternoon snack.

Summer is here. Time to carry thick books and read them at the park, eat something refreshing and delicious, go on long walks, admire the pretty flowers and get your daily dose of vitamin D.

devour me (via)

“Let go of the idea of winning or losing. In the game of life, the most important thing is just showing up and doing your best.”

— Unknown

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

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