HeyJaredBreakfast for Dinner
Essays from a big reader, big eater, and small-time writer based in London.
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Everything I read from July to September (opens the original)
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Five books in three months—pretty lame, but it has been a tough summer stretch. I’m hoping to return with a vengeance this autumn, especially considering I refuse to continue having my reading goal chime up like the Mad Hatter (You’re late! You’re late! Bite me.).It is candle burning, rain falling, book in nose season for me. See parts one and two linked below for everything I’ve read so far this year, as well as my Goodreads to keep up in (not very exciting or fast-paced) real time. <div class=
With a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like patience on a monument (opens the original)
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Lit Chat Chit Chat, vol. 1: Taiwan Travelogue (opens the original)
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Lit Chat Chit Chat is a London-based book club meeting monthly. If you’re in London and are interested in joining us, please drop me a private message. :) <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="325.3333333333333" src="https://substa
10 books I’m reading this autumn (opens the original)
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Little pleasures from summer (opens the original)
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Summer was hard. I quit my job, and I’ve spent a good chunk of the past few weeks oscillating between various points of pain and panic. More than once, I considered deleting this draft. It felt disingenuous to publish this given how I’ve been feeling and that I stopped adding to this daily list halfway through. But I read it over a few times and realized that to say I spent three-months totally unhappy would be just as untrue as saying I was giggles the whole time.I saw an eclipse. I saw my pare
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