• turn 30
• move to a new city
• read 35 books
• write a novel
• lose 40lb
• read a book in French
• make a new friend

• books
• art museums
• rainy days
• cats (Penelope <3)
• scented candles
• black dresses
• romantic comedies
• sixties pop music
• new york city at night
• the sims 2
• vanilla perfume
• roses
• mochas
• cemeteries
• velvet
• etymology
• religious studies
• faux fur coats
• english seaside towns
• tiramisu
• onomastics

• The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
• Ruthless by Sara Shepard (pll #10)

• books

✶ the great gatsby ・ the secret history ・ lolita ・ my year of rest and relaxation ・ rebecca ・ the picture of dorian gray ・ the secret dreamworld of a shopaholic ・ pretty little liars ・ guilty by definition ✶

• films

♥︎ romeo + juliet ・ midnight in paris ・ legally blonde ・ letters to juliet ・ scooby-doo ・ 27 dresses ・ 10 things i hate about you ・ kiki's delivery service ・ confessions of a shopaholic ♥︎

• television

☁︎ pretty little liars ・ gilmore girls ・ bones ・ gossip girl ・ schitt's creek ・ the x-files ・ mad men ・ how i met your mother ☁︎

• music

✦︎ dusty springfield ・ lesley gore ・ lady gaga ・ frank sinatra ・ laufey ・ raye ・ benny goodman ・ lana del rey ✦︎

• video games

☀︎ the sims 2 ・ stardew valley ・ animal crossing ☀︎

• author
• amateur art historian
• prose poet
• philharmonic orchestra groupie
• tombstone tourist
• blogger
• amateur ballerina
• tiramisu taste tester
• pinterest board curator
• crossword puzzler

• the count of monte cristo
• tender is the night
• pale fire
• we have always lived in the castle
• anna karenina
• the book of margery kempe
• the gilded butterfly effect
• uncharmed
• katabasis
• god didn't make us to hate us
• short stories in french for beginners
• the glimpses of the moon
• the secret dreamworld of a shopaholic
• from new york, with love
• a tomb with a view - the stories & glories of graveyards
• the private lives of saints
• when women ran fifth avenue
• the goldfinch
• rouge
• my cousin rachel

• write a novel
• become fluent in French
• see an opera at the English National Opera
• work as a freelance writer
• study art history
• read the Bible
• move to Oxford or London
• find a career i can enjoy
• get a master's degree
• rescue a pet
• study at Oxford or Cambridge
• publish my writing
• read a book in a second language
• grow my own roses
• buy a house or flat
• write a magazine column

• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent
• Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck