[13/100] Days Of Productivity

[20/100] days of productivity

Worked on my Substack, started reading White Nights by Fëdor Dostoevskij and listened to Aly and Aj's new album.

Simple pleasures: eating seasonal fruits, enjoying nature, going to art museums, getting lost in a book and savouring a cappuccino and croissant for breakfast.

Sometimes you just need to go to the bookstore to be surrounded by books. It's exciting and relaxing at the same time. No need to buy anything. Just smelling them and stare at the pretty covers.

May 2025 wrap-up

The Closed Doors by Pauline Albanese - 4/5

The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras - 4/5

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas - 4/5

The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese - 5/5

Among Women Only by Cesare Pavese - 5/5

A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch - 5/5

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart - 4.25/5

10 Days in a Mad House by Nellie Bly - 4/5

wonderful reading month!

check out my reviews here 💌

[3/100] days of productivity

Today's Sunday, so...relax time. The only productive thing I did from my list was reading. Started this little book about Sappho that I found in a thrift store recently.

Obviously, I also did some house chores etc but I don't track that stuff here. Then I watched several episodes of Dark. So unsettling, tangled and raw. I'm addicted.

Favorite poems by Louise Glück

Pomegranate

Timor Mortis

The Garment

Earthly Love

The Queen of Carthage

Immortal Love

A Myth of Devotion

A Myth of Innocence

Persephone the Wanderer

Crater Lake

more to add in the future for sure!

Louisa May Alcott, from Little Women

Pages from the diary of Lady Ottoline Morrell (feat. Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot), from Garsington May 27 (1926)

Summer hopefuls 🍓

It's an ambitious list, so I don't know how many of them I'll manage to read till September.

But I'm up for the challenge!

Paperbacks:

• White Nights, Fëdor Dostoevskij

• Daisy Miller, Henry James

• Mr Salary, Sally Rooney

• Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

• Women in love, D.H. Lawrence

• Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe

• Sappho of Lesbos, Alexander Trocchi

• Lady, Thomas Tryon

• The lady of the camellias, Alexander Dumas (fils)

• Senility, Italo Svevo

• Pillars of the earth by Ken Follett or The name of the rose by Umberto Eco...if I can manage! Not both obv 😅

eBooks:

• A little larger than the entire universe, Fernando Pessoa

• The honey suckle, Gabriele D'Annunzio

• A lover's discourse, Roland Barthes (paused, need to continue this!)

• Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

• Sonnets to Duse and other poems, Sara Teasdale

• The book of the city of ladies, Christine de Pizan

18.04.25

Daily carries.

Need to keep reminding myself of the importance of ritual in my life. When I forget it, when I forget myself, I find myself feeling so adrift. Like I’ve lost something. Ritual grounds me in a way few things do. Writing as a ritual. Fragrance as a ritual. Water breaks as a ritual. Lip balm because I perpetually forget that last one.

🎶 Present Tense - Radiohead