In an autumn state of mind

Fall. Fall! It’s here. It’s so exciting! I am staring out the window at a maple tree and can see the first few leaves starting to turn burnt orange. The mornings are covered in dew, the days are filled with sunshine, and the nights are chilly. It is unquestionably the best season of the year:… Continue reading In an autumn state of mind

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Fall Book Excitement

A few reasons why fall is the best season ever: College football. Crunchy leaves on the sidewalks. Homemade chili. Sharp, crisp air. Hooded sweatshirts. School supplies. Scary movies. Pumpkin flavored treats. Fall book releases. Here are the ones I can’t wait to read. In a hoodie. Drinking hot coffee. Eating pumpkin pie. Bellman and Black… Continue reading Fall Book Excitement

Green-Wood Cemetery

Despite (or maybe because of) living in New York for over 7 years, I have a huge NYC Bucket List. I add to it all the time, and going on adventures to do the things on it helps curb my severe wanderlust. I love this city, and I love that no one can ever see… Continue reading Green-Wood Cemetery

Audiobook Week!

There’s a lot of fun audiobook discussion happening on Devourer of Books for audiobook week, and since my Mom and I spend a significant amount of time on the phone with each other discussing audiobooks, I figured I should get in on the conversation. Today’s prompt is: “How do you decide what you’ll listen to?… Continue reading Audiobook Week!

Austerlitz, by W. G. Sebald

Signs you’re not reading an ordinary book: 1. You read a passage and then immediately go back to the beginning of it and read it again, slower, because it was so hauntingly beautiful that you need to re-experience it. 2. You’re pretty sure, by page 20, that the author is going to become one of… Continue reading Austerlitz, by W. G. Sebald

Slightly Foxed

I’d like to recommend a fantastic literary quarterly to you. It’s called Slightly Foxed. I found it by way of Quarterly.co – I subscribed to Gretchen Rubin as soon as I saw that she was a curator. (Last year I read and loved Gretchen’s book on positive psychology and the importance of the things you do daily, The… Continue reading Slightly Foxed