[16/100] days of productivity
Finally decided to tackle reading something by Fernando Pessoa. I don't know why but his most popular one, The Book of Disquiet, intimidates me so much, so I decided to start with his poetry. So far so good. Exquisite, I should say!
[8/100] days of productivity
worked on some articles for my Substack, made a lot of progress with Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates (this book is...devastating and kinda traumatic), did house chores, and went for a walk.
Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student: Vol. I, 1926-27
[20/100] days of productivity
Worked on my Substack, started reading White Nights by Fëdor Dostoevskij and listened to Aly and Aj's new album.
I love how walking is used by authors back then as a metaphor for female agency. For example, Pride and Prejudice by Austen, North and South by Gaskell and Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence to name a few.
from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad
Virginia Woolf, from "Cinema" in The Selected Essays of Virginia Woolf
ray bradbury
[18/100] days of productivity
Did a lot of reading. I'm almost finished with Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates. Such a "traumatic" read, so dark and uncomfortable, but beautifully written. Worked on my Substack. Then went for a little walk at the park.
paintings details and words from the art exhibit I visited this morning.
[3/100] days of productivity
Today's Sunday, so...relax time. The only productive thing I did from my list was reading. Started this little book about Sappho that I found in a thrift store recently.
Obviously, I also did some house chores etc but I don't track that stuff here. Then I watched several episodes of Dark. So unsettling, tangled and raw. I'm addicted.