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This Week Was Lit – (November 1 – December 7th)

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“As it happened, I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even self-definition. I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another; in fact, if I read something I admired, I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.” . Ahh... the quote that launched a thousand bookstagram hiatuses ⛵️... Or was it just mine? 🤔 Haha. Finishing up Vacuum in the Dark today & then onto this beauty for the evening. 🐚🌊 At long last! There is little I love more than books about writers writing. Especially, it seems, if it is autofictional, relatively plotless, meta, and/or the ambiguous narrator is at an emotional or existential impasse. In other words, I think this one is going to be a personal hit. 😂 . Have you taken the Outline Trilogy plunge yet? Are you obsessed?

Does anyone else nerd out over The New Yorker’s Fiction Issue each year? It’s the one issue I always buy off the newsstand even when I’m not subscribing. Finally got a chance to crack it open for a few mins before work this morning with my ICED coffee ❄️☕️👏🏼 (bc I think it’s actually summer in LA now? 🌞🌴🌊🏄🏼‍♀️). Very much digging this year’s theme: Border Crossings. If you aren’t as giddy over of a magazine full of short stories as myself, surely you can appreciate the Mt. Everest-sized, nightstand book piles on the cover illustration. #tbr 😂 I mean... . Also cracking open this new planner for the first time. I so desperately want to be a bullet-journal person. I try, but my brain can barely organize daily tasks themselves without also having to construct the planning vessel. 😓 A goal for a future Monday perhaps. So what are your plans for next weekend? Haha

Blue skies for days in the desert... 🌤🏞🏜 Let’s all pretend this is where we’re going tomorrow & not back to work? 👼🏼Janis the VW Bus made it all the way out to JT last weekend, and she looked real pretty doing it. 🚌✨🛣🌵☺️ Now she’s getting her beauty rest for a pop-up bookshop we’re doing next month for July’s Fourth Friday on Retro Row in Long Beach in front of @saludjuice & we’re maybe a little super excited about that. 🍎🍐📚🍊🍋

Went camping in Joshua Tree a couple of weekends ago, and it was beautiful and awesome. 🌵🏕🌅 On our way out, we stopped in Pioneertown (You know all those old Westerns filmed in the 1930s/40s/50s? They were most likely shot there 🎥🏜🐎) for lunch at @pappyandharriets . While we were waiting for the restaurant to open, we looked around the little old town, and I genuinely stumbled into this bookshop inside a massive barn that was definitely not advertising itself as a place that contained books. No signage, just some cool music emanating from the doorway... 🎶 Pretty cool, huh? That light streaming in? ✨😍 There were some interesting finds in there, but I was good & didn’t buy anything, though I was tempted to take home this vintage People Are Crazy Here book on the awesome cover alone. 💓💊 Anyway, I tried to look up the name of this place to share, and it’s not even listed anywhere, so maybe it was a desert mirage?! ✨🏝📚✨ Ready for the weekend and wishing I could head back to the desert! How bout you?

Currently reading Vacuum in the Dark after guzzling down Pretend I’m Dead last week. I 💖 Jen Beagin. She does not give a f🧽🧹k. Many more thoughts to come about this weird, dark, smart, sardonic, sparklingly unclean pair of books about our girl Mona & her adventures in grime. 🦠✨

Oh, hi there! 👋🏼☺️ It’s been so long. Like, really long. I just realized yesterday I hadn’t posted here in over a month. I needed a break, some breathing room, some time to think about and process the connection between social media and my own mental health, and I don’t feel like I need to elaborate too much on that, because I’m pretty sure we’ve all been there in one way or another. The most important thing I realized during my IG hiatus? Literally no one in my real life cares about books the way I do...haha. But seriously, the way YOU guys do—and that sense of excitement and community around reading is the whole reason I started this account last June (almost a year ago 😳) in the first place. And despite the things I sometimes really do not love about IG, I miss THAT. So, I’m back to say hello—and how the hell are ya?—with my APRIL wrap-up haha. I’ve always been a better late than never gal, and I really loved all of these books, so I think they more than deserve a belated shoutout. Plus, I already had the photos, so... 🤷🏼‍♀️ Not pictured here, I also read The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer, Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala, and So Sad Today by Melissa Broder in April. How have you all been? Tell me a story. I love stories. {Postscript: I also wanted to say thank you so much to those who reached out to me while I was off the grid, just to check in. That really meant a lot to me while going through a tough time. Seriously, more than you could know. 🙏🏼🖤✨}

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