Violent Young Girls and Creepy Dysfunctional Families

  • Stoker
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Weird, Experimental Horror

  • House of Leaves
  • And The Trees Crept In
  • Night Film
  • Horrorstor

Dark Fairy Tale Retellings

  • The Company of Wolves
  • Crimson Bound
  • To Kill a Kingdom
  • American McGee's Alice series
  • Neco z Alenky
  • Cruel Beauty
  • The Bloody Chamber and other stories

Gaslamp Fantasy

aug 18 2019 ∞
feb 1 2020 +
  • kajii
  • schoolgirl - dazai osamu
  • snow country - yasunari kawabata
  • dogra magra - yumeno kyusaku
  • breakfast of champions - kurt vonnegut
  • the master and margarita - mikhail bulgokov

+ phantasm japan

sep 18 2016 ∞
jan 3 2018 +
  • Dark
  • Mindhunter
  • Lucifer
  • A Discovery of Witches
  • The Good Place
  • Barry (HBO, Bill Hader)
  • The Old Guard
sep 3 2019 ∞
jul 22 2020 +

January

  • Notes from the Underground and The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Cardigans - Cole McCade
  • Solomon's Crown - Natasha Siegel
  • Idlewild - James Frankie Thomas
  • Eros the Bittersweet - Anne Carson
  • Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
  • Come Close - Sappho
  • Filipino Master Damian Domingo - Stephen R. Ongpin

February

  • Sunburn - Chloe Michelle Howarth
  • Of Socialites and Prizefights - Arden Powell
  • If Not, Winter - Anne Carson
  • Gwen and Art Are Not in Love - Lex Croucher
  • Junk Shop Blues - Cole McCade
  • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
jan 1 2024 ∞
mar 2 2024 +
  • Participate in guided meditation
  • Make peace with my single-ness
  • Reconnect with old college friends
  • Go on a hike
  • Read some more web novels
  • Visit an art gallery
  • Try new food (even if via Grab or Foodpanda)
  • Save money for a trip to Singapore after COVID

after COVID?

  • Hang out with a bookstagram friend IRL after COVID!
  • Visit the Greek Orthodox chapel in Makati (7-9 AM Saturdays only)
  • Visit some Buddhist temples in Manila
  • Eat at more cafes
  • Go on a date!!
  • Take an out of town trip to Baguio alone
  • Visit some historical sites all over Mani...
jan 6 2022 ∞
jan 6 2022 +

In order of priority

  • New tablet (if it breaks)
  • New laptop (if it breaks) - PHP 30-50k
  • New phone (if it breaks)

Travel

  • Baguio
  • Taiwan
  • Japan
  • Batanes
  • Hong Kong

Clothes

  • All black converse
  • A nice slouchy blazer
  • Oxfords
  • Rob and Mara doc martens style boots

Too fancy for my own good

  • Smoking jacket
  • Kimono
mar 17 2020 ∞
aug 7 2021 +

Here's a list of technically NOT YA books that are still wildly relatable to anyone who's a young adult. Coming of age is always full of angst.

  • Catcher in the Rye
  • No Longer Human
  • The Bell Jar
  • Rebecca
  • Schoolgirl
  • Brideshead Revisited (?)
  • The Secret History
sep 14 2019 ∞
sep 30 2019 +
  • Joena Zoleta
  • Yeo Kaa
  • Signe Pierce (American Reflexxx)
  • Charliexbaker
  • Spring Breakers
feb 15 2018 ∞
jan 25 2021 +

BOOKS

  • Love Speaks Its Name-
  • The Mill House Murders
  • Flowers of Buffoonery
  • Love in the Big City (UK paperback)
  • Captive Prince 1 -- secondhand-
  • Ocean's Echo (US hardcover)-
  • Convenience Store Woman (UK paperback)-
  • Diary of a Void (UK paperback?)
  • Beauty and Sadness (UK Penguin Modern Classics)
  • The Well of Loneliness (UK Penguin Modern Classics)
  • Manga - The Guy She Liked Wasn't a Guy at All
  • Listography Journal

CLOTHES AND SHOES

  • Doc Martens-
  • Black converse
  • Cream-colored Muji jeans
jul 24 2023 ∞
nov 16 2023 +
  • Victor Vale
  • Alexa Chung
  • Florence Welch
  • Audrey Rivet
jan 12 2020 ∞
jan 12 2020 +

Other Blog Post Ideas

  • October TTT Freebie 10/29 - Favorite Horror Books
    • House of Leaves
    • We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    • Edogawa Ranpo
    • Kirino Natsuo Book

Future

  • So You Love The Secret History (TSH-esque books, dark academia, campus novels)
    • The Likeness
    • Lake of Dead Languages
    • Black Chalk
    • Bunny
    • The Furies
    • The Truants
    • Social Creature
    • We Will Be Villains
aug 6 2019 ∞
mar 13 2021 +