Finished reading: The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Angela Carter 📚
New (well, ~40 year old) takes on old fairytales. Gorgeous language.
Austin Kleon urges us to embrace belwiderment..
He quotes Rumi:
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
This is now my overarching goal.
Goodnight, everybody.
Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer was awesome, too.
“I will de-intellectualize and re-sensualize my writing practice.” Morgan Parker
Want to read: This Time Tomorrow: A Novel by Emma Straub 📚
Today’s #1000wordsofsummer letter made me really happy. Diary writing! Noticing! And This Time Tomorrow is going on my TBR because I could use a 1996 time travel novel.
I am very exhausted. Not sleepy. Not fatigued. Exhausted.
I’m just grumping it out right now so if you’re going to be interacting with me, know that. It’s not you, it’s that I’m a grump at present.
Currently reading: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter 📚
Time for a Gothic Charm School re-read. 📚
