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i found the nicest bookstore tucked under a building at assi ghat in varanasi

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✨️my current read, some notes and coffee✨️

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"name one hero who was happy" You can't.

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Few of my January reads. The Eighth Life was long time due and it was a good day when I read it.

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Do you have any advice for young women?

In general? Sure. Read whatever you can get your hands on, but especially work written by women. Put your hands in sticky things at least once a week (clay, paint, dough, soil), don’t date anyone for a few years, travel when you can where you can, learn the skill of listening to your body— rest when you are tired, eat when you are hungry, drink when you are thirsty, and move when you are anxious. Swim as often as you can. Try to live alone at least once. If you can’t live alone, make time to be alone often. Carry pepperspray and do not learn to hold your tongue. Learn to sew, or weave, or knit. Unlearn the impulse to apologize for things that are not your fault. Pleasure yourself. Every once in a while, remind yourself of how loudly you can yell, how quickly you can run, and wildly you can dance. Allow yourself to cry for your mother. Spend as much time as you can in female-only spaces. Spend even more time with older women. Listen to their stories. Memorize their gray hair and lined faces, their swollen joints and sagging breasts. Cherish the gradual appearance of these things in yourself as an inheritance. Hold hands with other women. Spend some time naked in your home. Adopt a cat, or a fish, or grow some caterpillars into butterflies on your window. Eat heartily and drink to enjoy it. Go hiking and scream from a peak somewhere. Sometimes, allow yourself to act like a child again— climb a tree, scrape up your knees, and lick cake batter from the spoon. When you clean your home, open all the windows and beat the dust from all the curtains. Laugh loudly. Do not become self-deprecating to encourage others to laugh with you.

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fucking hate thar when you go to uni you have to actually do and turn in work like some kind of seventh grader. you should be able to just listen to the lecture & vibe

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She’s a ten but anytime she’s going through a hard time, she automatically reads and listens to music all day because she would rather escape this world and focus on other peoples sorrow and problems than her own.

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Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

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This book had all my attention! And I tried something new with these pictures.

Insta: a.readss

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signed up for a writing course and the classes are a welcome relief from everything!

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few posts from bookstagram

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My 13 year old cousin came back from a date with her boyfriend and said, "I can't wait to grow up and spend sunday afternoons with him." At first, I wanted to laugh (after all they're just 13), but I remember being 13 and having the world in my hands. I remember getting excited to talk to someone about my dreams and wishes, and how happy these daydreams and fantasies made me. There's this innocence you can only have at 13 and the world rises and falls and crashes and burns every year... until you do not think about quiet sunday afternoons.

So I asked her about the date and heard her giggle about bubblegum flavored ice cream, and how much she loves this little life. I think she makes me love it too.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

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April began with all the cruelty Eliot said it has

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happy blues 😊💙

really like how this picture turned out to be. Was kind of sceptical about the flowers but it turned out okay!

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Obsessed with everything green at the moment hence this spread (put together at the very last minute so please don't judge :/)

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“to be an english major is to be many things: a writer, yes, a reader, yes, a scholar, yes—but also partly an historian—a philosopher—an analyst—a politician—a classicist—a lawyer—a translator—a theorist—a scientist—an archivist—an astronomer—! the study of english rarely stands alone. at its best it is a concert of ideas, an orchestra of disciplines, a wild meadow of scholarship. it stands in a room of human interests and emotions and works and dreams and it beams. it shakes hands again and again and again and again, takes a slot on every lady’s dance card, rides every ride at the amusement park, collects a business card from every pocket in an effort to paint a picture of minds and bodies and lives and ages and imaginations, all as inseparable from one another as your lungs and your breath. to be an english major is to look at the world and be left speechless and then attempt to speak, knowing you’ll be clumsy as a babe. to be an english major is to know you cannot explain it alone—and neither can any other.”

— from my journal, 4 february 2022

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fiction, folklore and history course sounds extremely intriguing. Are there any assigned texts that you could share with us?

also while we're at it here are the courses i’m taking semester

a paper on colonial northeastern india, which covers the political economy, plantations, and decolonisation

a course on the relationship between fiction, folklore, and history. very excited about this one because we’re reading folk tales and fiction to study history

a seminar course on historiography and historical thought

a compulsory research methods course