discovered 165 new songs this year and revisited 57.

“If I had everything I wanted would I want more? Would I keep fighting if there's nothing left to fight for?”

may.

• get better, cate
• one hit wonder, cate
• lost in a midnight, moody joody
• untouchable, itzy
• vroom vroom, charli xcx
• wave, seventeen
• anyone, seventeen
• good luck, babe!, chappell roan
• nina cried power, hozier, mavis staples
• almost (sweet music), hozier
• but daddy i love him, taylor swift
• guilty as sin?, taylor swift
• bruises, reneé rapp
• too well, reneé rapp
• f*ck my life, seventeen
• i don’t understand but i luv u, seventeen

090423 — 091023...

• the cte aquaintance party theme low-key sucks. what do you mean tropical barbie? i wanted to go as a goth barbie :( . also, the hollywood met gala promises more creative liberty than barbie. what a wasted opportunity.
• scholarship orientation with none other than the mathemagician this sunday. i swear, rest is a luxury when you're a college student.
• currently looking for someone to borrow drums from for our acquaintance party, but so far there hasn't been a response. also, how did i even get assigned to the pageant? it feels like a subtle sick joke, but i guess i just have to strut it.
• turns out i'll be quite busy tomorrow since i have to go on errands my mom sent me.

071023 — 071623...

collections and anthologies tbr

• holler, child: stories, latoya watkins +
• tunneling to the center of the earth, kevin wilson +
• the way spring arrives and other stories, yu chen +
• foreign soil, maxine beneba clarke +
• wednesday’s child: stories, yiyun li +

nonfiction tbr

• why love matters: how affection shapes a baby’s brain, sue gerhardt +
• how far the light reaches: a life in ten sea creatures, sabrina imbler +
• how to protect bookstores and why: the present and future of bookselling, danny caine +
• hidden potential: the science of achieving greater things, adam m. grant +
• the life and death of anne boleyn, eric ives +
• the myth of sisyphus and other essays, albert camus +
• arrangements in blue: notes on loving and living alone, amy key +
• into the planet: my life as a cave diver, jill heinerth +
• the geography of thought: how asians and westerners think differently... and why, richard e. nisbett +
• these precious days: essays, ann patchett +
• a velocity of being: letters to a young reader, maria popova, claudia zoe bedrick +

academic book library

• a dictionary of stylistics (3rd edition) (katie wales, 2011)
• amongst the ruins: why civilizations collapse and communities disappear (john darlington, 2023)
• dictionary of artifacts (barbara ann kipfer, 2007)
• extinct: a compendium of obsolete objects (barbara penner, adrian forty, olivia horsfall turner, and miranda critchley, 2021)
• lightspeed: the ghostly aether and the race to measure the speed of light (john c. h. spence, 2020)
• paleontology: an illustrated history (david bainbridge, 2022)
• the social science of same-sex marriage: lgbt people and their relationships in the era of marriage equality (aaron hoy, 2022)

ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤin rotation ~

• riceboy sleeps, dir. anthony shim (2022)
• dogfight, dir. nancy savoca (1991)
• the zone of interest, dir. jonathan glazer (2023)
• the stranger by the shore, dir. akiyo ohashi (2020)
• the farewell, dir. lulu wang (2019)
• rebels of the neon god, dir. tsai ming-liang (1992)
• badlands, dir. terrence malick (1973)
• all about lily chou-chou, dir. shunji iwai (2001)
• c’mon c’mon, dir. mike mills (2021)