Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains
Joan Didion, Play it as it Lays
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
"I took the little radio from the kitchen and I went and sat in the spare room and I turned it halfway between two stations so that all I could hear was white noise and I turned the volume up really loud and I held it against my ear and the sound filled my head and it hurt so that I couldn't feel any other sort of hurt, like the hurt in my chest"
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Monday, August 2
commencement
the end of my summer vacation is near.
It is my first vacation as a university student, and I am in ruins
nothing new
nothing unexpected, considering my past 9 months.
but still, i feel it is imperative to achieve some sort of tangible progress
i have chosen two specific goals.
one is losing weight
the other is reading books,
books by the dozen,
books that are profound,
something to shake me up -
because nothing else will work, and I am damned if this fails as well.
so here's to literature,
to significance -
to life.
and I take it with a leap of faith
and I jump off the cliff, knowing it is all or nothing.
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