December — reflections, stories, peculiarities
Favorite book: Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs & Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki
Least favorite book: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
Read I would recommend: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
Memorable quotes:
“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. ” ― Fumio Sasaki, Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
“That these people would leave their homes, their cultures, their families, even their languages, and venture into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn’t even want them.” ― Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt
“The internet reminds us on a daily basis that it is not at all rewarding to become aware of problems that you have no reasonable hope of solving. And, more important, the internet already is what it is. It has already become the central organ of contemporary life. It has already rewired the brains of its users, returning us to a state of primitive hyperawareness and distraction while overloading us with much more sensory input than was ever possible in primitive times. It has already built an ecosystem that runs on exploiting attention and monetizing the self. Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told” for ages—you still live in the world that this internet has created, a world in which selfhood has become capitalism’s last natural resource, a world whose terms are set by centralized platforms that have deliberately established themselves as near-impossible to regulate or control.” ― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror