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Intellectual Consumerism
Expensive source on my favourite genre and another one made me think about my attitude towards owning books. I never felt I had to have a certain book, as long as I could get it from the local library. The few books I have are the ones that cannot be found in the libraries near me. And yet I always loved reading. But I never had the need to own ( Read more... ) -
lloranding
I am surfacing anxious and worried and all I want is to let go and immerse myself in something that would let me ignore reality... I hate reality because it doesn't seem to exist for me until the other people bring it up. I shouldn't feel guilty because of my chronic intolerance of the outside world - I am not hurting anyone! I am just looking for ( Read more... ) -
an obsequious reader
Someone wrote that Jorge Luis Borges read everything, especially the things nobody else is reading anymore. Reading through Labirynths, I was pondering on my conformity as a reader. I've been reading the great French and Russian writers, the glamourised Americans, the modern rubbish. The mainstream. Very rarely I came across books that could not be ( Read more... ) -
I was born by the river
I want to stretch my writer's muscles. I want to be Joan's Didion European equivalent. I reread The White Album, finished Play It As It Lays and am half way through The Year of Magical Thinking. And I am slowly discovering that I don't have much to say which is the reason why it is hard for me to write. I have lived lives, not many, but a couple, ( Read more... ) -
i will remember even after all the lights are gone and there's nothing except the ashes
When I was younger I was possessed by the deceptive feeling of harmony that list-making was giving me. Those fragile days it was enough to compile a list of things I wanted to do and I felt I had everything under control. Because, of course, control was, is and always will be held dear by the children of divorce. Once I was out of my depth, I felt ( Read more... ) -
Magically realistic life of a silver tiger
i thought i wasn't ready for a relationship and i was right. the only person i was ready for was Julian. nobody else could ever change anything. i fall asleep by his side every night and that helps ( Read more... ) -
bring the buckets by the dozens, bring your nieces and your cousins
damn you, english prepositions!