Candelaria Beatty > Recent Status Updates

suffered a bit through “the pacific journal of adam ewing” but just about devoured “letters from zedelghem” and now i’m really starting to get the hype!!

annual re-read

“I had had to weave my love out of memories and cravings that were impossible to satisfy, out of letters that took forever to arrive and arrived faded, and that were incapable of reflecting the intensity of my feelings or the pain of her absence, because I have no gift for letter writing and much less for writing about my own emotions.”

« Les soirées peuvent être extraordinaires, les nuits inoubliables, et pourtant elles aboutissent toujours à des matins comme les autres. »

not sure how reading for pleasure is going to go this semester but we’re starting off okay 🤠

also rereading this because now i’ve seen the show and it’s too good not to

quick reread to start the year i suppose :)
i remember finding this in the school library and reading it in middle school and then never hearing anyone talk about it and thinking i made it up

another interesting one for my archives and activism class… will i be able to finish it by 10pm tomorrow? stay tuned 🫡

rooting for her but i don’t love the writing

“you remind me of all that came after”