Hello! I’m Liz, I teach high school English and also on a mission to read a book from every country. @globallitproject Follow me on Storygraph...
Hello! Please enjoy this little glimpse into my recent visit to Chinatown in Singapore seen through the lens of my camera. It’s interesting being a tourist in your own country but it does give me a new appreciation and perspective about the place. Sometimes you have to step outside of your head to see what’s in front of you. For example, the samsui women who feature quite a bit in the photos below…
Pretty late to the game but I finally watched Backrooms today. I thought it was a pretty good film. Shot competently, really great set and acting. The narrative was a little clumsy but it still doesn’t discount the film’s worth. The movie did creep me out but not quite in the typical horror movie way. What haunted me was the idea of liminal spaces that hold the uncanny fragmented parts of our…
(photo taken by me in Auckland, July 2025) “I wanted to be able to die simply, comfortably, quickly. I wanted death to be in my power, to be able to invoke it, effortlessly and without paying any price, at any moment. All this would've been possible if death had been invented by someone more discerning, who wouldn't have built it up so much, but would've reduced it to a simple function. A third…
I had a rings planner back in the late 90s that made me feel like a real boss. I wandered around town with that ridiculously bulky planner, my discman and my folder of CDs while basking in the glorious mountains of potential bestowed onto me by my youth. But stupid me bought into the hype of Facebook when it appeared in the early 2000s and after a complete and total buy in to the newfangled thing…
I just upgraded my Bearblog and so excited I can post pictures so here are some jellyfish pics I took yesterday during a visit to the Oceanarium.
@shri_reads_books , a South Asian bookstagrammer posted on IG about adjusting and moving items in the pictures she takes so that her living space looks like the minimalistic aesthetic that’s popular in the West. An aesthetic that is disconnected from the norms of her culture. Reading her post made me wonder how much of our living spaces, fashion, culture and even our selves do we allow to be…
As a first post, I’ll introduce myself by answering the legendary Proust Questionnaire. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Perfect happiness is acceptance and the peace that comes with it. It can also be a cup of coffee on the couch on a rainy day with a book in my hand. What is your greatest fear? Losing my children. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My fear of confrontation…