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oddly specific book recommendations (opens the original)
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books to cancel your plans for (opens the original)
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To my core, I am an introvert.When I manage to make plans in spite of my better judgment, I spend the hours before them fighting a growing compulsion to cancel. The sensation inspired by a “so sorry something came up” text is nothing short of electric. This is to say, on any given night ideally I’ll find myself uninterruptedly in my house.Subscribe nowBut I also hope that if I ever die tragically, the documentary made about me will include various friends and loved ones saying that
dark academia reading guide (opens the original)
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It is fall.Well, technically it is “one day from fall,” but I am a proponent of rounding up in this life and I’ll take any excuse for more of the best season I can get.There are so many wonderful things about autumn — apple-picking, Reese’s Pumpkins, butternut squash mac and cheese from Trader Joe’s — and one of them is without a doubt the seasonal appropriateness of dark academia.Subscribe nowThere is just something about books in which ner
back-to-school reading (opens the original)
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At any given time, I am capable of mustering debilitating levels of nostalgia. That is never truer than in September.Lately the mornings have been crisp and grocery stores have been putting out bushels of cinnamon-scented twigs and I feel like I’m going to lucid-dream myself into back-to-school shopping. I feel called to cram plasticky folders and a mini pencil sharpener I’ll never use into a new backpack I begged my mom for over six weeks. Sadly, I’m an adult with an email job, which means the
plan an outfit, get a book recommendation (opens the original)
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All of my free time, my money, my emotional bandwidth and my spare city-rental space goes to books.But I also have an inclination to indulge my wide-ranging interests in one other area, and that’s clothes.Every time a new season arrives, a wedding approaches, or a career milestone calls for me to replace more of the closet area dedicated to “going-out tops” to work pants, I feel the desire to throw away everything I own and go on a 2000s rom-com style shopping spree.Subscribe now</
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