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"I like the idea of looking at the world through a lens. That you can create borders around what you see, the focusing and capturing of a moment that will never happen again." Gabriela Lee, Instructions on How To Disappear What I Actually Read for Buwan ng Wika Last month I shared my reading list … Continue reading August Wrap-up: Books + Musings + Journal Spread
“The past devours those naive enough to forget it.” The first in a fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction. For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his … Continue reading Pages Review: “A Song of Wraiths and Ruin” by Roseanne A. Brown
“…things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life The above quote is one of the very few hopeful passages from A Little Life, and I wanted to start … Continue reading July Backtrack: My Birthday Journal Spread + More Musings
"No matter what happens, life is only a series of days." Lucy Foley, The Guest List I'm a chronic mood reader, and I believe that if there is any "secret" to reading as much as I have been reading the past few years, it's only the fact that I read whatever I want, whenever I … Continue reading My July TBR List
"Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. // This is not despair. These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope." Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me "Happy July!" was … Continue reading June: Monthly Musings + #SpectrumReads + BLM Stories
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