books I didn't expect to love

• Death Valley by Melissa Broder
• Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk
• The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
• My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Ripe by Sara Rose Etter
• The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
• All's Well by Mona Awad
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Empress of Salt and Fortune

named for Gordon Ramsay and Ramesses II

• Ram
• Rams
• Ramby
• Rammy
• Chicken
• Mr. Cat
• Kitten
• Tuna Face
• Ramazon Prime
• Ramzan

2021

• alcoholic drink: negroni or milk punch
• ancient civilization: Minoan
• animal: black cat
• artist: Sandro Botticelli
• beach: Achlia-Galini
• cheese: blue
• chocolate: dark
• classical song: Moonlight Sonata
• coffee: iced salted honey latte
• color: emerald
• dish to make: short rib ragu
• dessert: chocolate pot de crème
• element: water
• flower: peony
• food: fatteh
• fruit: pear
• gemstone: emerald or ruby
• gelato: stracciatella
• Greek food: tiropita
• holiday: Christmas Eve

• Grand Canyon
• Arches
• Canyonlands
• Capitol Reef
• Bryce Canyon
• Zion

hikes and walks

• Grand Canyon:
  • Ooh Ahh Point (1.8 miles, 700-ft. elevation gain)
  • Rim Trail, Pipe Creek Vista to El Tovar Lodge (3.8 miles)
• Arches: Double Arch (0.5 miles)
• Canyonlands: Mesa Arch (0.7 miles)
• Capitol Reef:
  • Grand Wash (4.4 miles)
  • Hickman's Bridge (1.7 miles, 400-ft. elevation gain)

i can't put it into words or fully understand why, but i find my mind returning to them and i find myself feeling them

• Primavera by Sandro Botticelli
• Pulaski at Night by Andrew Bird
• babbling brook sounds
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The New Pope season 1
• Bratislava, Hungary
• cacio e pepe and riesling in Brno
• Late Spring by Yasujirō Ozu
• being underwater
• Fleabag
• mountains

books that, when I finished them, I thought... wtf did I just read

• Pizza Girl by Jean Kyuong Frazier
• Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
• Death Valley by Melissa Broder
• Reinhardt's Garden by Mark Haber
• The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
• Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
• Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
• Bunny by Mona Awad
• St. Sebastien's Abyss by Mark Haber
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
• Melmoth by Sarah Perry
• Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi

• ✔ Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• ✔ The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• ✔ Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
• ✔ Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• ✔ Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• ✔ A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Lavinia by Ursula K LeGuin
• The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Invitation to a Banquet by Fuchsia Dunlop
• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Elephant Rocks by Kay Ryan
• Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara