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"We may be drawn to words not in our own language because they fill a gap or capture a sense that we can, as humans, understand, yet don’t have a name for. " --Chi Luu
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After a long busy summer of not much reading. I feel like I’m finally back into the swing of it. . Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin (⭐️⭐️⭐️) is a memoir-in-essays* about her life walking around in various cities, all drawing back to her love of Paris. (*i say memoir-in-essays but it’s really a mixture. Most of the essays follow her in various cities but there is also a heavy amount of history of famous women walking/exploring various cities). The books is actually two books: about 40% is what it was promoted as: a book about women exploring various cities. The other 60% is her memoir about being in Paris and thinking about Paris, when she isn’t. . #bookstagram #books #currentlyreading
In the past few weeks I’ve read maybe 100 pages. I’ve been a distracted reader—not quite sure what to read, not able to finish a book. My head has been filled with infinite thoughts, ideas, plans, all flying around like a mass of bees flying around me, one catches my eye, holds it for a moment, then another grabs me and I try to catch it but the next buzzes in my ear, pulling me away toward another and another. . My mind is starting to slow down, and now I can see the routes and the lines connecting my ideas, bringing a bit of order. I’m slowing myself back into reading and I’ll get there but for now, I’m letting my mind take a break and slow back into the the process of reading and writing.
“What is love if not a hunger?” — Between many things—new apartment, wedding planning, work, life, all the etc. in between—I figured a photo challenge would be a good way to get back into posting. So here’s to Day one of #diversespines challenge, my current read.
It’s been a while. Because sometimes life comes at you. Between my last post and this one, i have read many books but here’s one that stuck out to me the most. — This is a book that, to me, can’t be rated because it’s a man telling his story and how could you rate someone’s description of his/her/their life. You cannot. This is a story that tugs at your heart and pulls you closer to the history many like to distance themselves from or believe was so far away. But it’s still there, a lingering shadow that we many times refuse to face and choose to ignore. — This is the story of a man. But this is also our history. — #zoranealehurston #nonfiction #history
The White Book, Han Kang. 5/5. “Swaddling bands white as snow are wound around the newborn baby. The womb will have been such a snug fit, so the nurse binds the body tight, to mitigate the shock of its abrupt projection into limitless.” — “against the background of a black coat-sleeve, a large flake of snow will reveal its crystals even to the naked eye. A scant couplée of seconds and she has witnessed it all. Mysterious hexagons melting clean away.” — Kang’s book always put me in a pensive state of mind. When I imagine her writing, I see it as a river or body of water simple on the surface but the more you study it, watch it, try to understand it, all its complexities emerge. This is one of those books that demands rereads and your undivided attention. It isn’t long, but you’ll find yourself sitting with each word, each phrase for time to come. — #bookstagram #bookish #books #hankang
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