It was interesting to me to read about American obsession with prescription medication. Also I thought it's a problem of current times, but The Secret History is from 1992 and it seems like it was a notable issue already.
I take my word's back, I fell back in love with dark academia aesthetic while reading the book 😅 Author did a great job (maybe too great) immersing reader into the world, that I want to stay there now.
Started reading The Secret History by Donna Tart. These two pages just made me dislike main characters and whole "dark academia" aesthetic too.
I'm trying to replace doom scroll with reading, but then reading does this to me 🤷♀️ My ESL brain sees it as a charade🥲
"I was feeling blue, but I'm better now" - Kiki's Delivery Service Good reminder that the inspiration, energy, whimsy - it will come back. If it's not here - take a break, come back and keep working.
Started reading Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. "Now we have machines to do our dreaming for us." And I thought, "Yes, exactly!!! I should take a picture of this quote and share it with my friends." Then I continued reading and realized the author's point was actually that people are still creative, but storytelling is transforming. And it was already happening throughout human history. I could have just quoted that one line out of context and misrepresent authors idea completely. Journalists do that all the time 🤷♀️ I'll share a whole paragraph here and I encourage you to read the whole book.
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