physically go to your local library at least once. seriously.
look around. find a random book with a cover that catches your attention. read the description. read the first page. if you like the sounds of it, borrow it and take it home to read. borrow a handful of books even.
if a book loses your interest, drop it. if a book grips onto you, ride that wave.
i've struggled to read recreationally for years despite having read so much as a kid. a lot of us are frozen by the seemingly infinite choices. even when we buy books to take home, we don't read them because which book is worth reading first? we don't have to decide, we have it right here in our bookshelves, we have an eternity of never deciding.
in this past month, i have read five books, most of them i've never heard of when i spotted their cover at the library. most of them, i've ended up loving. the due date of library books maintains the ability to read a book so i can return them to the library and leave the library with more books. an even better incentive than borrowing ebooks, because i actually have to leave the house and not be a hermit.
so if you used to enjoy reading but struggle with it now, ignore the book recs you hear. go to the library, come across a book that piques your interest, and read one page after another until you either lose interest or finish the book.
then it's onto the next one.
"I might as well add Camp Here & There to my tags since I finished it"
And then I immediately came across this lol
No joke I had just finished the 1st season less than a month ago and today I decided to finally get off my ass and go add it to my tags, which I hadn't done previously for the sake of avoiding spoilers, and then stumbled upon this
Very Awesome. I know what I'll be doing this June.
Hello, friends!
I have been doing steady work behind the scenes, and I am ready now! I am proud to announce that…
For those out of the loop: The first time I tried to set a date in 2023, my life was derailed significantly very soon thereafter in a series of mishappenings. It's taken me some time to get back on the horse, but I am back now, stronger, and here for good. Watch out, I am coming a'galloping!
I am very excited for this junction and for the return of these beloved characters. I believe that the writing for this season is some of my best work, and I am so wicked excited to produce that I can barely hold my joy.
See you all in June!
— Richard Siken, Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light (via letsbelonelytogetherr)
Bark Europa in the Drake Passage
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Spy punishes Scout by making him french
Lomochrome color ‘92 Sun-kissed
Ok this isn't a bug but I need to share - LOOK at these absolutely minuscule precious little poppies
White pygmy-poppy, Canbya candida, found in Southern California
Photos by keirmorse, mojavedon, and pokemon_master
the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.
if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.
Solaris (1972), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky