- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- Americanah by Chimamamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Zami: a New Spelling of My Name b y Audre Lorde
- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Joy luck Club by Amy Tan
mar 28 2018 ∞ mar 28 2018 +
- The Witch (2015)
- Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
- The Virgin Spring (1960)
- Kill List (2011)
- Witchfinder General (1968)
- Cry of the Banshee (1970)
- Onibaba (1964)
- Wake Wood (2011)
- Plague of the Zombies (1966)
- The Wicker Man (2006)
- The Wicker Man (1973)
aug 26 2017 ∞ aug 26 2017 +
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❧ JANUARY
- 1 |
- 14 | one year wedding anniversary w/ Steve
- 19 | Focus reading group (assignment: Semantics); SS Lab outing to Marquee's (shitty beer, good company, out until oh my god 3-4 a.m.)
- 20 | birthday outing for Maria! @ Fat Cat
- 21 | amazing homemade vegetarian naan wrap dinner
- 22 | "The Ghost," Frank Bidart (x); talked about Graduate Union w/ Gretchen
- 25 | 180'd trajectory of syntax; checked out The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (trans. by Betty Radice, 1985)
❧ MARCH
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- 29 | mom, dad, and Cassiee flew in to visit us!; mom lost her purse
❧ APRIL
jan 22 2018 ∞ apr 2 2018 +
jul 18 2017 ∞ dec 22 2017 +
aug 4 2017 ∞ apr 2 2018 +
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- decathect , v. - to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss
- doodlesack , n. - a bagpipe
- featly , adj. - neatly, elegantly; accomplished with technical skill; adroit.
- heartsome , adj. (Scottish) - giving cheer, spirit, or courage, as in a heartsome wine .
- kerkos , n. (Ancient Greek, κέρκος) (slang) - penis
- Kerkylas , from the island of Andros - allegedly, Sappho's husband. Recent conjecture, however, has presented the possibility that her "husband" and his name were invented jokingly, as his name translates to something roughly like "Penis of Man-Island" (or, as put by this, "Dick Allcocks from Man-Island")
- paralipsis , n. - the suggestion, by deliberately concise treatment of a topic, that much of significance is being omitted, as in “not to mention other faults.”
jan 22 2018 ∞ jul 6 2018 +
- beastie
- heart-whole
- anthology
- liminal
- shibboleth
- gigantor
- Wertherian
- tawny
- datemate
- abyssal
- nihilominus (Latin)
aug 10 2017 ∞ aug 10 2017 +
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