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her moon song. an essay.

this piece is inspired by Phoebe Bridgers' Moon Song, and it talks about the painful part of love and grief.

enjoy.

#lifeupdate

it has been a very very hot minute since i last posted anything here or be completely active and that was not planned at all. i think winter just puts me in bad slumps because of the cold, but i'm definitely working on this slump since january is ending and i've read zero books so far lmao, but i have been writing tons ! i am not abandoning my booksta, but i am sad that i lost the momentum of my engagement but who cares because i just love posting for fun

i hope this 4 am piece is something you'll enjoy!

glad to be back lovelies, did you miss me? 🤍 by @literielle

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3 years ago

"When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist." — Circe, Madeline Miller

To be a woman is to perform and the expectations have been irrevocably set the second we crawl out of our mother's womb.

For the female rage is to strip the emotional barriers between women and their patience, but in a cloth covering only the barest parts of her skin.

To expect rage is to expect a performance with tears running down her godforsaken face, dewy and glowing as a flower that was drenched in rain.

"She is not a woman. She is a goddess. More than a woman that she ever will be, so long as she is more beautiful. Because beauty is all there is for a goddess. Because beauty can get her far, but not far enough. It can bring her a cascade of applause, but never an ounce of respect. Certainly not a man's or a god's." — Prose from G.L. Olympia's writing by @literielle

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3 years ago

— a short essay ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

"may this life be as kind as sweetness"

in honor of my grandmother, here is an essay i wrote for my expository writing class this quarter.

i officially survived two of my classes with one left to go for finals, but we are coming to another end of a short-lived era!

let me know how this one goes for all of you ♡︎ by @literielle

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2 years ago

— book log: the employees (10/10)

a preview of my personal book log now that i don't post extensive reviews of books that i've read online. i think i am able to express myself better when i write for myself rather than to showcase my thoughts.

[excerpts from the employees]

"and if we can, are we to love them like humans or dogs?"
— statement 63, pg. 51

"i want to know what it's like to hold a child in my arms again. when the child put its mouth to my breast, i was both a body and an object to it. when the milk squirted, i was both the milk and not the milk."
— statement 80, pg. 67

"the way i see it, you're a family that's built a house. and from the warm rooms of that house you now look out at the pouring rain, safe from menace, you only delight at the rain. you're dry and snug. you're reaping the rewards of a long process of refinement... i'm standing in the rain you think can never fall on you. i become one with that rain..."
— statement 97, pg. 75

"i appreciate this feeling of sadness, because it's a sadness i can endure. it's not hard to bear; it's more like a delicacy. another reason i appreciate such a sadness is that i know it's a deviation from the emotional behavior i was allocated."
— statement 98, pg. 76 by @literielle

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12 days ago

— to all the books i've read this summer! 🤍

i realized how much i've completely abandoned reading over the last few years and would like to pick it up again with both soothing and thrilling books.

i'm almost done reading six of crows and it will be added to my summer list soon enough! i made it a goal to read 10 books before the academic season comes back around, so i have a little less than a month and 3-4 more books to go!

ps. i'm fighting off the -ber months cold and hoping i don't get sick right when classes are about to begin..

q: what have you been reading this summer?

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#bookstagram #read #literature #fantasy by @literielle

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a month ago

— my current read!

shadow & bone is one of my favorite netflix series (lost half of my soul the day i found out netflix cancelled it) and i fell in love with the soc casting so much! i have always had this book on my shelf and i can't wait to finally read it 🤍

q: what's your current read?

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#bookstagram #sixofcrows #literature #books #read by @literielle

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a month ago

— my take on this trend ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

** also, this song has been on repeat ever since watching spiderman bnd!

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#bookstagram #literature #books #read by @literielle

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a month ago

— august book haul!

now that i have been back to reading again, i splurged a lot more than i expected this month collecting a bunch of awesome books from all over the state!

most of these books have been bought from local bookstores whether new or secondhand! (@elliottbaybookco , @eagleharborbooks , @magus.books1978 )

as i mentioned, here is a rundown of all of the books i've bought this past month:

NONFICTION (all thrifted from MAGUS BOOKS except for the unclaimed)
- the unclaimed by pamela prickett & stefan timmermans
- cultural semantics by martin jay
- literature and the question of philosophy edited by anthony j. cascardi et.al
- the philosophy of literary form by kenneth burke
- the penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory
- the novelty of newspapers by matthew rubery
- the cambridge guide to literature in english by ian ousby

FICTION
- ruthless vows by rebecca ross
- yumi & the nightmare painter by brandon sanderson
- out by natsuo kirino
- storybook ending by moira mcdonald
- lost souls meet under a full moon by mizuki tsujimura
- glaciers by alexis m. smith

GRAPHIC NOVELS
- veil, volume 3 by kotteri
- veil, volume 4 by kotteri

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#bookstagram #books #read #literature by @literielle

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a month ago

— wonderful book haul!

i've been reading a lot more now that summer has been slowing down, so i thought it would be great to share what books i recently got from my daytrips (i definitely did not stick to my reading list, but i'm trying my best! i've been reading a lot of graphic novels and manhwas)

• the unclaimed: abandonment & hope in the city of angels | pamela j. prickett & stefan timmermans
• glaciers | alexis m. smith
• storybook ending | moira mcdonald
• lost souls meet under the full moon | mizuki tsujimura

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#bookstagram #local #reading #books #bookworm by @literielle

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2 months ago

— the kamogawa food detectives 🕵️

a comforting read, enough to boost the momentum for a readathon and it's a nice slowed down book that's often mistaken as a high paced murder mystery food crime book, so it's why people did not necessarily enjot it according to the reviews.

have you read this book lately? what do you like about it? if not, is it on your list?

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#bookstagram #summer #readinglist #books #reading by @literielle

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2 months ago

- nyork, nyork ִ ࣪𖤐

june and early july have been full of endeavors that i happily burned into my brain because it’s great to experience such fruitfulness among the stress and heavy burdens of life, but as everyone i know tells me on a daily basis, “we get through it one day at a time”

definitely a trip worth remembering!! by @literielle

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3 months ago

— books i've read recently

• if cats disappeared from the world | genki kawamura
• big swiss | jen beagin
• normal people | sally rooney

safe to say, all of these books made me cry one way or the other and broke my heart with each page. by @literielle

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4 months ago