Been Holding On Too Tight To Things I Can Control, But Today The Rope Ran Outta My Hands.

📖 reading week (27/11 - 03/12)

currently reading

o mito de sísifo - camus (75%)

infocracia - byung-chul han (pg. 62/107)

lolita - nabokov (pg. 25/ 331)

crime e castigo - dostoievski (pg. 33/561)

the way of kings - brandon sanderson (428/1252)

kibogo- scholastique mukasonga (starting)

to be read

a peste - camus

sea of tranquility - emily st john mandel

read (20/11-26/11)

chouette - claire oshtsky

the right to sex - amia srinivasan

tell me i'm an artist - chelsea martin

“I am obscure to myself. I let myself happen. I unfold only in the now. I am rudely alive.”

- Clarice Lispector, Água Viva [in the images, a picture of Clarice and part of a manuscript from Água Viva]

late valentines with my girl ottessa and the view of a rainy day 🤍 🌧

social media has really warped our perception of creativity and hobbies. Stop doing things to post them. Just write. Just journal. Just sketch. Just read. Just annotate. Just sing. Just crochet. Just do the thing you’re going to do with the assumption no one will ever see or know you did it. Stop performing. Just enjoy it.

1am, i'm reading 'hiperculturalidade', and it's so good. probably, i'll be finishing it on thursday or friday.

also, i read today 'blue horses' by mary oliver and liked it. wasn't too invested tho, but it's great.

and in the morning, i was able to read a lot of 'the idiot' by elif batuman. this book is making me so happy! her writing is amazing and just to be in selin's mind is fascinating.

be kind to yourselves 🤍🌧

i wonder how you view me, how you view me now.

RIP David Lynch (1946-2025)

"We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more..."

from Lyrical and Critical essays by Albert Camus

finished 'tell me i'm an artist', which was really good. what it means to be an artist? that's a very profound question, i think.

also, i'm reading 'infocracia' because i want to read everything byung-chul han writes.

actually i'm reading too many books at the same time. 5! AND trying to deal with college.

great music to be my partner, hayley slays. fr. 🤍🌧

[dear bird,

protect me.

the fall is too high. catch me.

i'm not ready to fly. eat me.

in your inside, take me.

don't leave me, so i can live in you.

see through you

what i can't be

be for two, for we, for i

and drown deep above

[in the vacuum.

jales.