writer | sleeper | learner ♥️ a sucker for good food & entertainment
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I Realize Posting Finglish Twice A Week Is Flooding The Feed. Thinking Of Moving It. This Is Why I Said
I realize posting finglish twice a week is flooding the feed. thinking of moving it. this is why I said 'testing'.
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Bonus: unlike many languages, Finnish has names for eight points of the compass instead of four. So between cardinal directions (pääilmansuunnat) we call ordinal directions (väli-ilmansuunnat) NE, SE, SW & NW by their very own words.
'Ilma' means 'air' and 'suunta' is 'direction', so literally these are called 'air/wind directions', or 'directions of (the) air'
2022
January
finished: 2 books | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: Keskeneräisten Tarujen Kirja 1980 by J.R.R. and Christopher Tolkien
February
finished: 0 books. Scandalous, I know.
March
finished: 5 books | avg. rating: 3.2 stars favorite: The Gods of Mars 1913 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
it's tough tho, I've enjoyed the Barsoom books more than I expected from 20th century pulp
April
finished: 1 book, which I rated 3/5 stars, and refuse to call a favorite
May
finished: 4 books | avg. rating: 3.0 stars favorite: Phantom of the Opera 1910 by Gaston Leroux
June
finished: 2 books | avg. rating: 4.0 stars favorite: Jazz 1992 by Toni Morrison
July
finished: 2 books | avg. rating: 2.5 stars favorite: The Scarlet Letter 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
August
finished: 4 books & an unhealthy amount of research papers | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: Kultaraha nurkan alla 2000 by Maria Vuorio
September
finished: 3 books | avg. rating: 3.33..3 stars favorite: The Master and Margarita 1967 by Mikhail Bulgakov
there goes my 22 reading goal. this has been a comfortable phase, I think next year I'll try for 50, if my situation doesn't drastically change.
absolutely adored the Devil's Lot visiting Moscow, too <3
October
finished: 2 books (I think) | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: The Vampire Lestat 1985 by Anne Rice
November
finished: 3 books | avg. rating: 3 stars favorite: Of Mice and Men 1937 by John Steinbeck
December
finished: 2 books & lots of shorts | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: how to compare..
That's it, final update! 30/22 books finished. No doubt The Master and Margarita was the most fun I had this year. 2023 here
Week’s reads with pictures | my (unsatisfying) Goodreads profile
Some days I will look into the mirror and see a stranger. Or looking back at me might be someone I've been searching desperately on another day, yet now grieve to see. It is not that I'm a stranger to myself, my soul I know, but these expressions, they don't belong on a face I'd read as mine. This form betrays me. These feet can't carry, and this voice can't say.. it frustrates me. And I search. I run these fingertips across it, sometimes enjoying bits of it, sometimes wondering if there's somehow I might mold it to better fit. But the truth is there's nothing much wrong with the body. I might admire it even, were I not trapped in it. But it doesn't feel like it should belong to me, doesn't feel right on me.
In the woods near our house everything grows in circles. There's tall trees, but no leaves on the moss and the stars cast shadows like it's daytime. I made a soup one time of the mushrooms I found in each corner of the wood. White mushrooms, with wide hats, that taste like honey and cotton sugar. The recipe was for a soup, everyone had it at my birthday party, but it was titled 'making a savior' and it's a little strange I can't seem to find my way out of our yard, where the people don't look like my friends at all..