I think itβs time for us to all collectively return to the library. Get a card, go to a club meeting, volunteer on an off day, rent some equipment. You donβt even have to read a book. But since the digital world is rapidly becoming a subscription-only hellscape requiring a criminal amount of private personal information to use even CASUALLY, the library has become our last safe haven to just exist with information present and not have our labour or information exploited for money.
Beautiful library in Munich Bavaria
Β© Thomas
So I've kind of taken a step back from social media lately. I just logged in here for the first time in about a month. Anyway, I've been reading more lately. I've been watching book content on youtube - booktube if you will. (Sorry/not sorry but booktok just seems dull and repetitive, and none of the creators I enjoy seem to use it.) Also the amount of videos I've seen with people showing books they own, where they hate or haven't read a good portion of their collection... I mean, I definitely also own books I have yet to read, but libraries are a thing. I don't want to add books to my collection until I know I like them and want to reread them or refer back to them at some point. I don't understand why it is such a massive trend to have bookcases full of books you don't like or haven't read. I don't enjoy that type of content. I do enjoy hearing people talk about books they've read, whether they liked them or not, and I enjoy seeing collections of books that are obviously loved. Just a hot take I guess.
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite: The Water Fairy (1921)
I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache
life just goes on no matter what
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Photo byΒ Daniel J. Schwarz
girls when they get overstimulated in the grocery store
ChurchΒ by Aubrey Laurence
Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems
Eva Nemeth South Wood Farm
Corfu, Greece