Category: my library
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Words! I have so many words and simultaneously nothing to say about the 450 page trip I went on while reading this novel. I read ~200 pages of this while traveling on planes and trains and the amount of times I audibly gasped and fervently cried – 😭… from animal…
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whose names are unknown by Sanora Babb
Whose Names Are Unknown, a Novel by Sanora Babb, takes you along on a journey shadowing families of farmers in the 1930s American Mid-West. Filled with no thrills, raw and gritty, Babb portrays the real living conditions of a community of farmers as they survive the wicked winds of the…
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home body by Rupi Kaur
There isn’t much not to fall into within Rupi Kaur’s poetry, but the book, home body, specifically resonated so deeply due to its timing; published at the end of 2020, in the peak of the pandemic, home body wrestles the battle of inner-self. Pieces we all can relate, to post…
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Flux by Orion Carloto
The first book of poetry by internet sensation Orion Carloto, Flux cascades through the highs and lows of love. Featuring delicate charcoal art and black and white photography, Flux paints beautiful pictures of the heart. A poem from the book I loved: The Birds and the Bees We tiptoed on…
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If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino is a real mind twister, hopping from story to story, narrator to narrator, it can be a challenge to keep up with all the plots starting and stopping while still seeing the bigger picture. Though many delish page turns that…
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
A classic, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos is far superior to its more infamous film counterpart starring the legendary Marilyn Monroe. Though nothing is more truly legendary than Anita Loos’ ability to capture depth within aloofness, humor and vulnerability within genuine stupidity, all portray the many comical characters presented…
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Crush by Richard Siken
Winner of the Yale Series Of Younger Poets, Richard Siken’s Crush, rips skin from flesh to bare souls bounded to love and its tortures. Some of my favorite poems from Crush: Scheherazade (pg.3) Seaside Improvisation (pg.8) The Torn-Up Road (pg.9) Saying Your Names (pg.33) Lines I love from Crush: “…the…
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The Hour Of The Star by Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector is notably one of my favorite authors. This book, unlike others I have read previously, is written with less literary mind hurdles and more simplistic sentence structures, as noted by the narrator itself. One of my favorite aspects of Clarice’s writing is that while variably short in length,…
a girl on a bench 