I read The Miseducation of Cameron Post & tasted love & frustration & sunburnt shoulders. I wrote out my favourite passages because they remind me of what it’s like to live as somebody who believes in narrative above almost all else.

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I read We Come Apart & thought in/

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for days.

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I read Wing Jones & teared up with the heartbreak but also with the uplifting magic of power & optimism & girls owning their bodies & their stories & the complicated feelings for their families.

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I read Teeth & for days after everything was salty.

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I read Bone Gap & it was like reading a familiar fairy tale set in a different forest.

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Right now I’m reading What is Not Yours is Not Yours & I’m in deep navy blue & lovesick, barely coming up for air. Nobody writes like Helen Oyeyemi. Reading her is always a specific kind of longing.

What are you reading?

(Works cited:

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth

We Come Apart by Sarah Crossan & Brian Conaghan

Wing Jones by Katherine Webber

Teeth by Hannah Moskovitz

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi)