spring season is only now making a strong appearance here in ireland.

it's time to iron my summer dresses and flowery skirts, find the stowed-away tote bags, refresh the picnic blankets, retire gothic literature and look at my poetry and contemporary books.

10|05|2024

Today I took the day off to go to a book fair with my mom and this is my small haul. I will have to say I got a bit overwhelmed by all the people there and all the sounds and general chaos so now I am exhausted, but I am happy with my finds. My mom gifted me this beautiful illustrated edition of The Silmarillion (which I'll be honest is in my long term tbr but I am glad I got my dream edition). I also found The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires for which I have been on a hunt for weeks and I was not expecting to find there. And finally I got a collection of short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman by this published I love. They make such curated and beautiful editions I am obsessed with their books and I plan on slowly collecting them since they mostly specialize in collection of short stories by various authors who often write gothic and horror stuff (aka my absolute favourite thing). I am pretty sure the vampire horror will be my next read, but I still have a few chapters of A Psalm For The Wild Built to read before I move onto something else.

crocheting, tea logs, playing persona, recent bookstore pick-ups! also desperately awaiting spring 🌿

today's purchases 💸 in classics mode

3.22.24 | All the trees are in full blush & it's too beautiful to stay indoors. I'd rather sit & read beneath the plum blossoms. ♡ 𝑁𝑜𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑖

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for days of hauling books

second book haul of the year 🥲

thankful for libraries, today and every day 🖤

book haul ✨⚔️🐉🔮

thrifted and annotated copy of 'to the lighthouse' by virginia woolf.

so lovely, buying a book at the second-hand store and finding someone's annotations between the pages.

The new books I got yesterday look so cool. The firat one has a sort of wooden texture to the cover since it's all about stories set in forests, while the second has a hudden picture under the black and white cover.

18|11|2023

Today was quite prosuctive, I planned to do more in the afternoon, but I then had a friend call me while having an existential crisis, so I dedicated some time to him to at least try to calm him down a bit. It' scary how all of us somehow feel lost at the same time with the same struggles and het we are convinced we are the only ones to have those fears and thoughts. I plan on ending my day crocheting and then maybe reading a bit if I have enough energies for it.

cozy hobbit autumn activities and productivity:

read first thing in the morning

worked on a couple of recorded lectures

started reading one of the books I have to study for my philosophy class (I think I am more or less half way into it, in one more reading session I should be done with my first read)

continued my tma relistening

crocheted

daily Irish practice on duolingo

today's self care:

took my meds

switched my study enviroiment a bit, doing some reading around the house instead of sitting at my desk

📖: Odyssey by Homer, D'Alembert's Dream by Diderot

mini haul ✨️ love when book covers conveniently end up matching. i've been wanting to read 'de profundis' for literal years, i've just never encountered this specific edition in a store before (i'm vain, and i need the pretty edition of a book always)

also, for music lovers, i got my hands on the new chelsea wolfe album!! obsessed doesn't cover it.

I came across this array of Terry Pratchett copies on a recent trip to Bath

26.01.23 —small joys of january so far have been seeing the sunrise on a crisp morning, buying discounted flowers from my local supermarket & finding new books to get lost in