All My New Friends
Currently reading:
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
Books finished this week: 0
Library updates:
I have been going, going, going for the last week, and I am somehow not yet gone. By that, I mean I have not yet collapsed from exhaustion——though more sleep would be nice.
I was in Portland (Oregon, not Maine) for a long weekend, mostly just to see Sabrina (hi, Sabrina!), because she said the city was great and I had never been and really just wanted to see her in person. Friends, let me tell you, Portland exceeded my (admittedly fairly low) expectations. There are a few special places I’ve visited in the world that I’ve looked at and genuinely thought, “Yeah, I could live here.” I’m admitting now, to both myself and the world, that Portland has become one of those places.
Between two exquisite dinners at Canard, drinks by the fire at High Water Mark, a behind-the-scenes tour of the Pittock Mansion with the incomparable Jill, and a few beers at the exceptionally welcoming Brewery 26, I fell in love with Portland. Delicious food——both at restaurants and from food trucks. The gorgeous natural beauty of Washington Park, from the arboretum to the rose gardens (Japanese Garden next time!). Powell’s. Powell’s. I understand that no place is perfect, and Portland is certainly rife with its own troubles. But everyone was so kind and I made so many vacation friends along the way. I felt welcomed in Portland in a way I haven’t in a city in a long time. (Thank you to new Instagram friends Susan, Kaitlin, and Jack, if you read this, for being part of that!) I feel very thankful for a lovely weekend in an amazing new city with an exceptional friend.
Anyhow, after returning to reality back in New York, I went to my parents’ house for what was meant to be one overnight to pick up my cat and became two nights because your girl took a redeye home and she needed to sleep before operating a motor vehicle again. I came home-home on Friday and immediately dove back into my glamorous New York lifestyle with a delicious sushi meal and a midnight showing of an absolutely bonkers giallo film called Torso, courtesy of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, with Britt (hi, Britt!). We then somehow got back on our feet to spend Saturday at New York Comic Con. And then get dinner. And then go to Book Club. And then go to another midnight horror movie (Ringu).
So, I’m pooped. Taking today, Sunday, slowly, catching up on homework and writing, and maybe reading one of the many, many books I purchased over the last few weeks.
Me and some of my new pals<3
Also, I finished Dracula while waiting for my flight home at PDX! Yay!
Closing thoughts:
Fuck it, buy books. (But also, I beg of you, read books.)
Total books read from the Moratorium Library: 48
(Total books added to the Library: 95)
You can’t set someone like me free in Powell’s, okay??
Also pictured here: books ordered and picked up from Kew & Willow, plus a few titles from an event I attended at K&W a couple weeks back, PLUS a couple more books from Book Club Bar on this marathon weekend.
