#switzy

[lilbowchic]

I hate when I find a book I really want to read but it’s not going to be released till September

[lilbowchic]

I first heard of this book through a post of « upcoming books you need to read this summer » I was captivated by the plot and description of Switzy, but devastated when I found out it wouldn’t be coming out till September. Sooo i researched and found out what an ARC is and how to get one, I emailed penguin and signed up for netgalley and when I got approved for the EARC it felt like the best news ever.

I almost finished the entire book in one setting but When I noticed I was approaching the final pages, I took breaks, scared to pick it up again, not wanting the book to end.

Switzy by Emma Cline, takes you through David’s life, well the skeletons of it. The ones that are deep hidden away in the closet and the one that’s almost a summery rehearsed, so he can prove he still knows who he is and what his life was. Cline’s writing style is vivid, I found myself seeing everything I was reading as if I was present in the pages. She takes you right into the mind of Alzheimer’s ridden David. At points I wondered if I was missing pages, how could the jumps make sense? How does it make sense, when one’s brain abandons them while they’re still warm. At other times it felt you were a fly on the wall watching it all unfold, bracing for what was going to happen next. The journey to death can be a production but the act of death is all there is. That was my final thought at the end of Switzy, it takes you through the production, the play. You know the ending but it still surprises you when you get there.Thank you to NetGalley and to penguin for the advanced copy, I’m looking forward to Switzy release in September so I can re-read this book all over again, and in the meantime I’m looking forward to reading more of Emma Cline’s work.

[lightsylph]

Six or seven years update

Ohhh i don’t know if anyone will read this, but just in case someone stumbles upon it! A life update. I started tumblr when i was... twelve, or thirteen. And now I’m nineteen. I’m going into my junior year of college in the fall, my major is world languages and linguistics with a specialization in japanese, and i love it very, VERY much. Multilingualism is one of those passions that kinda crept up on me over the years, and it wasn’t until i was sixteen taking all three foreign languages at my high school that i realized maybe it was kinda my favorite thing in the world, maybe what i might want to pursue a formal education and eventually a career in. This summer i’m going to taiwan for two months to study mandarin, and spring semester next year i’m doin study abroad in either touhou or osaka. I’m also going to puerto rico at the end of the month, but that’s just for fun :-) my friend invited me for her birthday and we’re staying at her mom’s place. I’m mentioning that one too because my favorite part of traveling is speaking the languages, and spanish was my first second language! Actually, third, technically. I spoke hebrew as a child but i lost that one, lamentably.

After college, i plan to teach english in china for a few years, then come back here, maybe go into foreign language teaching, maybe translating. I love talking about grammar and structure and alla that very much, i’m gonna be a tutor and a TA next year too :-) Me and spanish and mandarin and japanese and hopefully hebrew (and turkish and hindi and arabic and russian and french and all of the other languages out there) in the future are best friends and i’m sure there’s plenty i’ll be able to do with them at my side.

Some more then-and-now... I wrote fanfics back in my more avid tumblr era. And i still do that, but now they’re more just for me. I don’t read the way i used to. Sometimes I draw. I’m not very good, or very inspired, but it comes when it comes. I still keep kosher and i love my religion just as much as i always have. I have a couple metal rings in my face. I also have a pet tarantula, his name’s orgalorg. 

And I’m very happy. With myself. I don’t remember my time in high school but i do know i wasn’t doing well. But i’m... better, now. I like myself. I’m proud of myself. I’m happy with my appearance, i’m happy with my studies and i’m happy with my friends. My family, too. My mom, my siblings, their kids. I have a lot of niephlings now and i love them dearly. I have good relationships with the people in my life and a good relationship with, y’know. Me.

If anyone who’s been on my radar for a long time sees this, i hope it makes you feel nice to hear this stuff. That some kid from a-long-time-ago-on-tumblr grew up a bit and is doing well. On the cusp of starting an independent life. For me personally, writing this out is some crazy perspective... this forum is my life before college. My life since middle school (the tail end of it, anyway). I don’t remember that life but opening this website up after probably at least two years... i don’t know. I dunno how to describe it. It feels like a smiths song or something, but not in a bad way. I’m excited to look back on all of this. From where we started i’m more than happy with the direction in which i’ve headed.

Thanks for reading if you got this far. Lots of love from me.

[pepsi-is-dumb]

Ulysses: Hey what do you want to eat?

Helvetica’s ghost: The souls of the innocent-

Switzy: A bagel.

Helvetica: No!

Switzy: Two bagels.

[pepsi-is-dumb]

lmao I was drawing Switzy and I was actually proud but Medibang crashed-

[pepsi-is-dumb]

Switzy, talking to Ulysses on the phone: Did you preheat the oven like I told you to? Ulysses: You bet! Switzy: At what temperature? Ulysses: 5:35. Switzy: That's the clock. Ulysses: Switzy: Ulysses: 5:36.

[lightsylph]

everytime we touch i get this feeling and everytime we kiss i reach for the sky but go off i guess :/

[lightsylph]

Tumblr user Lightsylph is a HARASSER she sends me RUDE anonymous MESSAGES please UNFOLLOW her IMMEDIATELY.

I did NAUGHT! Mr. Electric make a callout post for Switzy and have her BLACKLISTED