The Allure of Books

Queer psychologist obsessed with literature🍃📚🍂 booklr | studyblr Currently reading: War & War Ask box is always open~

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[lost-rxverie]

monday | july 13

a couple more lazy weeks left in my hometown, but things are starting to speed up again – making my packing list, decluttering my childhood bedroom, and officially enrolling as a graduate student.

[haleyslibrary]

after work snack 😋

iced matcha + cara cara orange

[cheshmenoor]

[imanbenerrabeh]

monday journaling :v))

[nervebynerve]

“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin 

[shinjani]

07.13.2026 • sun

Catching up with some papers on the train back to my apartment, and the best breakfast ever the next morning 🍓🌟

[sucharomantic]

12.07.26 | cute little 80 min study session today

kanskje, Norge tapte fotballkampen i går, men vi feiler ikke i å lære norsk da.

[deadlywaltz]

éblouissant. ★

[macrolit]

James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study by Stuart Gilbert

[cranberrywren]

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[harryandabook]

writing writing writing

[lizziethereader]

I last read...

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

what I wanted: a book that really makes me think

what I got: an interesting thought experiment

what I thought: Although it was interesting enough, the story didn't wow me or manage to really get me emotionally invested beyond sympathy for both the mouse and the man. I did appreciate that the book made me think, though. I rate this 3 out of 5 flowers for Algernon.

[drviott]

When the leaves change, my motivation for change comes as well. 🕯️🍂

[a-books-allure]

I’m drunk af, I just got confessed to and I don’t know how to tell them I prefer staying by myself because I don’t possess the capacity to romantically love someone

[a-books-allure]

OK SO HELLO I’m sober now! it’s funny how my aroace struggles get enhanced by the alcohol… btw the problem was that this person already knew this about me but still confessed because well, that’s just how they feel and that’s valid. but now I’ll likely have one friend less by the end of the week because they’ll probably have to “distance themselves to cope”… :(

[ancientsstudies]

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

ig credit: meshariver.

[glitchcosmos]

saturday morning: reading in bed ☕️