Vivacias - Under A Larger, Kinder Sky

pov: you’re a waitress at nino’s and one of the aglionby boys just called you a prostitute

she asked forgiveness, and i gave it. but the truth is, i'd forgiven everything she'd done, and everything she could do, long before that day. for me, that was no choice. that was falling in love.

brave hobbit

im rereading the fifth season w gf and recalling my love for these characters. rly wanted to lean into alabaster and essun’s age… i love themb. 

2, 16 and 19 from books asks, please 🙂

2. top 5 books of all time

answered here but my runners up:

the left hand of darkness (ursula leguin)

the hunger games (suzanne collins)

invisible cities (italo calvino)

the great gatsby (f scott fitzgerald)

gifts (ursula leguin)

16. how many books have you read this year?

only 7 i got off to a slow start but then recently started commuting with audiobooks and we are SO BACK (•̀ᴗ•́)و

19. most disliked popular book

sorry…………. gideon the ninth. it’s awful

i finished retribution :-)

An excuse to draw the freedom earring (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

2023

One Art - Elizabeth Bishop // October - Louise Gluck // On Reading An Anthology of Postwar German Poetry - Lisel Mueller // Fairy-tale Logic - A. E. Stallings // Introduction to Space Opera - Brian Aldiss // Yellow Glove - Naomi Shihab Nye // Hammond B3 Organ Cistern - Gabrielle Calvocoressi