a place to keep stuff

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Apps for new phone

Clue

Venmo

Years in Pixels

Delta/Airfrance

Deepl

French radios

Trello

Good Calender: Time Planner

DB Navigator

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des phrases utiles

au bout du fil = on the line

au bout du chemin = after all, in the end

au secours! = help

fais/faites gaffe! = watch out

fais/faites-le-moi savoir = let me know

fais/faites comme chez toi = make yourself at home

comment ça se fait? = how come

ça reste à voir = we’ll see

ça me fait plaisir de = that pleases me

tant pis = too bad

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"Hidden cats 003" by Heera Cha on INPRNT

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"New year's Present" by Heera Cha on INPRNT

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Barnes and Noble wants

Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy

The Beautiful and Damned / F. Scott Fitzgerald 

Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet Jacobs

Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen

Thus Spoke Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche)

Walden and Civil Disobedience / Thoreau

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52 Week Challenge

Fiction

In the Dream House / Carmen Maria Machado

Spring / Ali Smith

Winter / Ali Smith

The Handmaid’s Tale / Margaret Atwood

The Testaments / Margaret Atwood

The Ocean at the End of the Lane / Neil Gaiman

Daisy Jones and the Six / Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic / Leigh Bardugo

Once Upon a River / Diane Setterfield

Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays / Christa Wolf

The Lost Queen / Signe Pike

Friday Black / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Devourers / Indra Das

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell / Susanna Clarke

Dance of Thieves / Mary E. Pearson

Dracul / Dacre Stoker

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith

The Things They Carried / Tim O’Brien

Blood Meridian / Cormac McCarthy

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer / Patrich Suskind

The Passion of Dolssa / Julie Berry

Under the Udala Trees / Chileno Okparanta

The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night / Jen Campbell

The Secret History / Donna Tartt

The Rook / Daniel O’Malley

Nonfiction

Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement / Jodi Kantor

How We Fight For Our Lives / Saeed Jones

The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It / Yascha Mounk

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future / Steven Levitsky

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design / Charles Montgomery

The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs

Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter / Carmen Aguirre

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria / Wendy Pearlman

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution / Janette Sadik-Khan

The Nickel Boys / Colson Whitehead

DIY MFA: Write with Focus, Read with Purpose, Build Your Community / Gabriela Pereira

Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader / C.R. Pennell

Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator / Ryan Holiday

Proposals for the Feminine Economy / Jennifer Armbrust

What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance / Carolyn Forché

Homing: On Pigeans, Dwellings, and Why We Return / Jon Day

In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids / Travis Rieder

Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison / Deborah Tobola

H is for Hawk / Helen Macdonald

Parkland: Birth of a Movement / Dave Cullen

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity / Katherine Boo

Educated / Tara Westover

How to Suppress Women’s Writing / Joanna Russ

The Weaker Vessel / Antonia Fraser

Poetry

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far / Adrienne Rich

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There are some desires of which I cannot penetrate either the motive or reason.

Livy, Speech by M. Portius Cato

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'That we may shine,' they say, 'in gold and purple, that we may ride in carriages on festal and ordinary days alike.

Livy, Speech by M. Porcius Cato

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Photograph by Namsa Leuba

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Summer rain is still the most comforting sound I know. I like to pretend that it's our dead mother's fingers, drumming on the ceiling above us.

Karen Russell, from Ava Wrestles the Alligator

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O, all the burning hearts of women unappeased /Shine like great stars, like flowers of fire / As the sun goes and darkness opens all desire

May Sarton, from My Sisters, O My Sisters

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The mastery that comes from discipline, The joy that springs from form This was her element, her power, her charm, On luminous and stern foundations Built her detached, creative meditations.

May Sarton, from In Memoriam 

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It takes a long time to live what you learn.

May Sarton, from Poet in Residence

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They looked until their hands and hearts were blazing / And the reality of pain pierced like a knife

May Sarton, from Santos: New Mexico

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writing gods pls purge me of this

what if i can never understand the arrangement? never figure out a way, not even the best way, but any way, to tell this story? well. the only way is through i guess.

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The special hours, the scent of setting suns, the profound darkness of the twilight air on streets without return.

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, from “Quand Vous Seraiz Bien Vieille,” c. 1971 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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