i could make so many of these. sometimes it feels like i can spend whole days just reading books and articles, and watching movies and essays on youtube. there is so much out there (too much sometimes) and i yearn to consume, enjoy, analyse, love and hate all of it.
ironically, two weeks of summer vacation yielded approximately zero more media i could recommend to anyone. i barely read a few pages of a book (i had brought two paperbacks, and uploaded a dozen on my e-reader). i didn’t read any articles, even though i have at least two dozens saved. i did watch two movies, mainly because we had three consecutive days of unrelenting rain.
what did i do during that vacation? i honestly don’t know. i hung out with my family, reconnected with friends i hadn’t seen in a long while, i took some walks. every thing just went really slowly, every day. it was very nice. taking things slow, and not spending every minute of every day scrolling on the phone, or being distracted by stories or music or any background noise.
so save this list, come back to it whenever you feel like it. but also, take some time to be in silence, with yourself or with the ones you love. our brains don’t need to be stimulated all the time. we can make pretty good thoughts ourselves too.
The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll
“The Land of Laughs was lit by eyes that saw the lights that no one’s seen.”
Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura
Whether I’d actually been born with a gift was beside the point. What was important was that I believed I was.
Memoirs of Hadrien by Marguerite Yourcenar (originally read in French)
Déjà, certaines portions de ma vie ressemblent aux salles dégarnies d’un palais trop vaste, qu’un propriétaire appauvri renonce à occuper tout entier.
(Already, certain portions of my life resemble the bare rooms of a palace too vast, which an impoverished owner renounces to occupy entirely.)
Art for Our Sakes by Zadie Smith
I want to be wanted by a human. I want to be in relation with other humans. That’s what I believe I am on this earth to experience.
An Ant Reads Ayn Rand by K.A. Hughes
yes, that is what the humans would do, because a human first thinks of oneself, and she knows this is why they will be a short-lived species.
The End of Books by Sheila Liming
The decline of books—of their value, ubiquity, or availability—is the decline of the effort to push ideas into circulation and make knowledge matter.
Lessons From the People’s Historian, Howard Zinn by Dave Zirin
Instead of history being a narrative of the triumph of the wealthy and powerful, it becomes something written by underdogs armed with courage. Instead of being objects, young people become subjects and potential changemakers.
fin.
bree beauregard
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