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
She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oak-wood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast inter-laced intricacy of her body.
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
She lay quite still, in a sort of sleep, in a sort of dream.
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student: Vol. I, 1926-27
[2/100] days of productivity
Brushing up my French skills with this book by Michèle Thomasson. It is a little collection of his journal entries. I think I can manage, little by little. Low commitment, but effective.
Demonology
A Question of Free Will: Inside the Final Days of Katherine Mansfield
The Humiliating Act of Falling In Love
How to read a painting
When Horror Is the Truth-teller
Love Is Like Cocaine
Lizzie Siddal: The life of a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel
Joan Didion Against a Performative Life
Women drawing nudes: a history of forbidden bodies
How midlife became a crisis
and more to come!
May 18, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]
My favourite fragment from A Room of One’s Own.
[11/100] days of productivity
It's Monday, so...you know the gist.
Read, eat, write, repeat.
currently: reading carnivorously Lady Chatterley's Lover, mentally preparing myself for my next read (i.e. Babysitter), eating pokè, enjoying the warm weather and sunny days, wearing wide leg jeans + my bf botton downs, and starting a commonplace journal.