☆ Bookshelf ☆
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"Piranesi" — Susanna Clarke
page 140-ish. no spoilers, I will find you.
recent reads
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke
★★★★★
In progress but I already know. It's doing something to my brain that I can only describe as "quietly haunted." Reading it slow on purpose.
Circe
Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller
★★★★☆
Cried on public transit, which is always a good review. Docking half a star only because I wanted 100 more pages of the island.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin
★★★★☆
Made me want to go make something with a friend immediately. The middle sags a little but the ending got me anyway.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer
★★★★★
Changed how I think about my own garden, genuinely. Read a chapter, go outside, look at a plant differently. Repeat.
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📚 the shelf that changed my life
the ones I keep coming back to, or keep pressing into other people's hands
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt — the book that made me want to write, then made me too intimidated to. |
|---|---|
| Bird by Bird | Anne Lamott — permission to make a bad first draft of anything, not just writing. |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin — read it at 19, still think about it monthly. |
| How to Do Nothing | Jenny Odell — the book that got me gardening in the first place, honestly. |