january

• films
  • promising young woman
• tv series
  • dickinson
  • julie and the phantoms
  • bridgerton
  • titans
  • wandavision
• literature
  • white ivy by susie yang
  • secrets for the mad by dodie clark
  • virginia woolf: essays on the self (classic collection)
• music
  • abbey by mitski
  • drivers license by olivia rodrigo

january

day 10 — it's sunday, or so jordan told me. for me, it's day 4 of being in the dark, of constant eye-rubbing, trying to wipe off that glazed look i know i currently have. i cannot remember much of yesterday, which i thought was a monday until a customer politely corrected me, but that's to be expected. in my apartment i can see remnants of the week; puzzle pieces to help me retrace my steps and hold on to what little i can. i need the evidence. i need it badly or i'll lose this week entirely.

there are five coffee cups in random spots, trailing from the dining table to the bathroom. i remembered to get caffeinated which would explain the lack of a headache that an unfulfilled dependency would otherwise do.

six books stacked on the coffee table, five of which are arcs and the sixth, topmost one is virginia woolf's "essays on the self." i...

• "Write then, now that you are young, nonsense by the ream. Be silly, be sentimental, imitate Shelley, imitate Samuel Smiles; give the rein to every impulse, commit every fault of style, grammar, taste, and syntax; pour out; tumble over; loose anger, love, satire, in whatever words you can catch, coerce or create, in whatever metre, prose, poetry, or gibberish that comes to hand. Thus you will learn to write." —Virginia Woolf

classics

• little women by louisa may alcott
• pride and prejudice by jane austen
• the house of mirth by edith wharton
• anne of green gables by l.m montgomery

adult fiction

• the color purple by alice walker
• on beauty by zadie smith
• the song of achilles by madeline miller
• writers & lovers by lily king
• the waves by virginia woolf

non-fiction

• caste: the origins of our discontents by isabel wilkerson
• minor feelings: an asian american reckoning by cathy park hong
• sapiens: a brief history of humankind by yuval noah harari
• hyperbole and a half by allie brosh
• a mind spread out on the ground by alicia elliott

young adult