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[galina]

I’ve seen a lot of people posting Ilya Kaminsky’s ‘We Lived Happily During the War’ recently – I really recommend the collection it is taken from, Deaf Republic. It’s like the poetry equivalent of a concept album (something like The Antlers’ Hospice), submerging its reader into a world of pulse-quickening terror coalescing with bright shining tenderness all in a lyrical stream which pumps and flows like blood then stops, solidifying and stabbing you in the gut. One of my all-time favourite collections.

[ancientsstudies]

Villa Virginia by ichmiles.

[unistrugglin]

Throwback to first weeks of uni and reading about the ancient philosophy in the library. 2nd throwback to trip to Budapest a few weeks ago. Feeling so grateful today ✨

[soft-lovely]

morning in paris

[medstudentblues]

I’m so tired. can’t wait to take a nap this afternoon.

[somerabbitholes]

attempting to put together some writing. figuring — which i’m rereading randomly in parts — has become a constant companion these days.

[apoherm-deactivated20231020]

herdrafts I’ve been writing drafts for days, reading The Waves gave me the right amount of ideas to start writing my own novel. I’m experiencing something I’ve never ever thought I was capable of; I mean putting words on paper wasn’t easy at all for me, now I’m slowly improving and that’s a great accomplishment. I’ve also started reading Electra and Orestes’ plays by Euripides, although I still have to finish my cr, I’m gonna add two more books I’ve just bought; The Land where lemons grow by Helena Attlee and Summer and other essays by Albert Camus. 

[saintrouge]

LITERATURE STUDENT MOODBOARD

“We were always surrounded by books and words and poetry, all the fierce passions of the world bound in leather and vellum.”

- M. L. Rio, “If We Were Villains”

[honeydewiswriting]

[imgeorgeirl]

24.4.20 - finished planning the first book in a fantasy trilogy I want to write. It was originally supposed to be junior fiction for an assignment (which is only the first chapter) but I decided to worldbuild and write the whole thing oops...

[zzzaharena]

First day of April. 2020

[studylikeathena]

rainy day studying for a linguistics quiz next friday.

[honeydewiswriting]

morning read

[galina]

Really growing to like this little nook for working ✨

[insidemayhead]

[honeydewiswriting]

i just keep reading frankenstein over and over

[thelastreader]

One of my current reads is HALF OF A YELLOW SUN by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Huge thanks to @4thestatebooks for gifting me this Matchbook Classics edition. 🧡 After reading We Should All Be Feminists, I promised myself to read the author’s other works. Her writing is captivating! This book is set in 1960s Nigeria before and during the Biafran War. Here’s the synopsis: “Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.” . Have you read this book? What’s your Adichie’s favorite? 😊 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBx-XyYKgwK/?igshid=1h7cw8rajzu3f