Caro 🌸☀️🧑‍🦯‍➡️

The cover of Murakami’s Tsukuba Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage. Four circles filled with red, blue, white and black Venn Diagram with a transparent one against a dark grey background.

🫥 BOOK 13 - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
TW: suicide ideation, rape
I picked this one up not knowing it is bad horny fest. Not his best writing, to my belief. Just… really, really weird, disjointed ideas and execution. Skip this one.
2/5 ⭐️

The cover of Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior. A woman holds a glass and looks wasted and upset while surrounded by probably intoxicated people.

🍸 BOOK 12 - Bad Behavior - Mary Gaitskill
TW: alcohol, substance and sexual abuse
Fucked up stuff. Some stories made me physically nauseous, so definitely not for the faint of heart. I just fucking love the way Gaitskill observes and analyses people in her writing.
4/5 ⭐️

The cover of Chris Broad’s Abroad in Japan memoir. Mount Fuji towers over a torii gate and tradition Japanese houses in a stylised illustration.

🌸 BOOK 11 - Abroad in Japan - Chris Broad
A lot of the stories he shares in the book are stuff he has spoken about in videos. It’s funny to hear his voice in his written word though. Reads fast.
2.75/5 ⭐️

The cover of Mieko Kawakami’s All the Lovers in the Night. Under the title, a woman stares into space while light shines all over her face and body. She is holding a pen over paper.

🌌 BOOK 10 - All the Lovers in the Night - Mieko Kawakami
This could’ve been an essay instead. Kawakami, in my opinion, tends to project ideas and dialogue into characters that don’t seem to really hold them themselves.
3/5 ⭐️

The cover of Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro, featuring a new translation published by Penguin Classics. The head of a Japanese woman is half obscured under a gigantic kanji.

📜 BOOK 9 - Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
I have… I have conflicting feelings about this. I understand the allegory of old Japan clashing with new, and genuinely believe there’s SO much to talk about. Beautiful, concise writing, just insufferable characters. Maybe that was the point?
4/5 ⭐️

The cover of Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s Four Treasures of the Sky. The face of a young Chinese woman is imposed against a soft, light green background. She stares as her clothes become superimposed by an old American mining town.

🖌️ BOOK 8 - Four Treasures of the Sky - Jenny Tinghui Zhang
TW: rape, racism
Historical fiction on Chinese migration and forced labour in America. Based partially on a true story, it is haunting and heart-aching. A pleasant random find.
4.5/5 ⭐️

The cover of Julie Clark’s The Last Flight. It features a red photoshopped image of airport stairs and the figure of a woman walking away.

✈️ BOOK 7 - The Last Flight - Julie Clark
I don’t usually read thrillers, but this one was fine! One side of the story was, in my opinion, far more riveting than the other, but it’s an easy read nonetheless. I just really like airplanes LMAO
3.5/5 ⭐️

Haven’t updated my book thread in five months but have continued to read nonetheless…. Time for a bulk update

Nothing to report, save that I’ve bought some fantastic apple, cinnamon and raisin tea and it’s so yummy!!!

Un boceto a grafito de dos manos.

No acostumbro a hablar de materiales de arte últimamente, pero estoy haciendo bastante estudio artístico estos días
Mucho grafito sobre todo! Está guay :3

Me encantan me rechiflan los pinceles de acuarela de Escoda o(—( la gama Versàtil me tiene de RODILLAS
Cómo coge el pigmento y el agua a la primera OGHHHHHH qué PRECIOSIDAD

A photo of a sunflower yellow arm chair with a blanket draped over it, covering most of it and reaching the floor. The blanket has a pattern of cute prehistoric pals, as well as small fossils and little dinosaur footprints. There are a few prehistoric creature plushies on the armchair, nestled within the blanket, them being a velociraptor, an ankylosaurus, and a carnotaurus. There is a small table to the left of the armchair, a flowerpot with yellow and white stripes on top, and a stack of books at the bottom. Behind it, there is a cream-coloured reading light pointed at the armchair. There is a tree in the background, as well as a round-shaped bookshelf. It is a wonderfully cosy scene, that invites to curl up with the plushies and a good book!

A photo of the prehistoric pals blanket folded neatly into a long rectangle on top of a moss -green sofa. The blanket has printed fleece on one side, featuring the prehistoric pals patterned design, and has fluffy sherpa on the reverse. The sherpa is displayed as one corner being neatly pulled over the fleece. It makes you want to dive right into the softness!

Prehistoric pals blankets 🦕🦖

FUCKKKKKK FUCK FUCK FUCK WHY DIDNT I COME UP WITH THAT FUCK!!!!!!!!!

Tbh this was worth getting kicked out of the game room for
Yeah bitch get locked the fuck in your art!!!! This is top tier!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

A collection of illustrations featuring Catcus, the cactus cat, against a soft brown background, in a flat, shadeless art style. Catcus is a green cat with cactus spikes all over her body, her tail stylised to look like a cactus with a pink flower on it. The six illustrations showcase Catcus being cheeky and playful, knocking plant pots over and rolling in the dirt, sleeping in planters curled cutely, becoming eeeeextra loooong as a pair of gardening gloves pull her out of a plant pot, and followed by her little catcittens, which look like little round cacti balls.You just cannot stay mad at her mischievous self, she's just too cute!

🌵+🐱 #art

Trying not to get too anxious nor think too much about how Postnord being downright useless may impact us haha…… god I really hope they get their shit together soon

It’s been…. A complicated summer

Picking Japanese back up for an upcoming short course I’m doing 🥰
Realising I’ve forgotten a significant amount of grammar because I haven’t touched my notebooks since May 😟

Thank god I stole KK’s strepsils exactly for some emergency like this

Throat pain before day two of a con (screaming and yowling inside)

Ooh
And Caspar
That minuscule fucking killing machine

Twenty hours into Fire Emblem Three Houses and I would absolutely commit a murder spree for Petra, Dorothea, Mercedes, Bernadetta,

MISSING LINNEA AND KNUT 💔💔💔

A photo of our shiba, Lilla My, taking it easy on the floor with the morning sun shining on her.

The sun has been beautiful lately 💖

Time has flown past since you two arrived 🥺🥺💖💖💖💖 it still feels so weird to share breakfasts with you!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖

My fingers are covered in glue, the scraper has made another hole in the wall, but I have to trust the process trust the process trust the process

The fact that people, to my belief, enjoy the process of renovating their homes, mystifies me. My back is screaming in pain and I’m sweaty and sticky I WANT OUT

INLOVE THIS I LOVE TOUR ART AND I LOVE YOU!!!!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

FLOOOFFFEEERRRRSSSSSS GRRRAAAAWWWRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An art piece of Ida and Caro's fursonas, Floofs (sheep) and Heracles (lynx). They are sitting on the grass with a single daisy on the left and a single red tulip on the right. Heracles, wearing a bowtie and suspenders is holding out a small yellow flower to Floofs, wearing a simple pink top and yellow skirt, who looks upon it with adoration.

Haha whoa hi it's me again and I actually managed to draw some art.

I had the pleasure of drawing this lovely piece for my beautiful friends @floofyfluff.bsky.social and @carrotchimera.bsky.social for an art trade!! 💖 Thank you Ida for making me discover that I can actually draw furries omg