2. The Saturday Roundup
weekly top 10 - things i've loved, found, saved & been thinking about recently
FINALLY got my hands on Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! Review coming when I get a chance to read it.
This bedtime assistant is a life changer — it has increased our sleep quality substantially!
The relation between nature and human being: Agnieszka Lepka
We recently started a subscription to Misfits Market & loving it. They offer premium-quality groceries that would typically go to waste because they don’t meet the appearance standards required for regular grocery store sales. Also helps with keeping grocery shopping under control — couldn’t recommend more!
Buy & read my dear friend Amy’s memoir releasing this upcoming week here or here. "When he dies, I fall out of time." It is easily one of the best memoirs I have ever read, and I’ve read plenty!
Buying a new house comes with a lot of choices & decisions — the good kind! Trying to find a couple lamps I love for the living room & the guest room. These are the final lighting choices.
I think about this excerpt from Anne Carson almost everyday.
My husband is *obsessed* with his new art-adjacent hobby. More ideas here!
Starting my kids young with The Met’s art book - my 2 year old’s favorite bedtime activity right now.
Books which are stitched up the center with coarse white thread
Books on the beach with sunglass-colored pages
Books about food with pictures of weeping grapefruits
Books about baking bread with browned corners
Books about long-haired Frenchmen with uncut pages
Books of erotic engravings with pages that stick
Books about inns whose stars have sputtered out
Books of illuminations surrounded by darkness
Books with blank pages & printed margins
Books with fanatical footnotes in no-point type
Books with book lice
Books with rice-paper pastings
Books with book fungus blooming over their pages
Books with pages of skin with flesh-colored bindings
Books by men in love with the letter O
Books which smell of earth whose pages turn
-D