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*3.5

in true adaptation nature, i must read the source material first

nicola, you did it again — that's 2 for 2.

I make films because as much as I obsess over the final moment, its composition and tone, what it must deliver structurally and emotionally, I wish to run from it.

I've contemplated this reread several times since I first read this. After an endless cycle, I think I'm ready to revisit this one.

He'd spent so long writing in the voices of others that he forgot to find his own.

Look at all those people down there. Do you think they want to be in this city because they want to be alone with their thoughts all this time? Because they want to dream in private?
They want this. They want to meet people who inspire them and tell them they're worthwhile. They want to be surrounded by people who understands them and see them in ways no on else ever did before. They want love.

...this is definitely an exhaustive read on fashion

a story of a room of one's own.

"girl begins to fall in love with printer"

as someone who studied print, i am intrigued

cue the louvre by lorde

who ever thought I'd be sparksnote-ing the new testament

"I just wanted an excuse to feel like the way I looked at the Internet was different than the way everyone else looked at the Internet; like the way I wasted my time was special." so seen omg

persphone: the og thought daughter

we love a lit(rary) adjacent it girl

my annual reread starts now

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For fans of Eve Babitz, Saltburn, and American Psycho.

It's Normal People weather and I'm itching for its predecessor.

They find routines in their collective lives and turn them into rituals. They created the ritual of the brief encounter, the ritual of dying love, and the ritual of outrageousness.

They live in a world invisible to the men.

Sexuality, like all the necessities of life, must be free and easily available.

For the last read of the year, I decided to pick up a fave of mine that I've been putting off re-reading.

this book most definitely did not need to be published.

.......what.....tf.

if r. barthes embarked on a new adult novel

POV: a character study of Tartt's darling twins: camilla and charles

.....it....... get....... wilder.