a literary society that meets sporadically for illicit midnight revelry filled with people that are half bite half sweetness wearing expensive oxford shirts, sometimes immaculate and sometimes with two buttons popped and bloodshot eyes. no one knows the president’s real name but he’s someone new too often for it to matter anyways. you leave the dorm windows unlocked for members when they need to hide from things they can’t name. the vintage record player in the abandoned building meetings are held in never seems to stop playing
listen i might be drunk but im right. art & literature & nature & music make life worth living. people who look like they were ripped out of a caravaggio painting make life worth living. go organize a bacchanal in the woods. take pics of your lover in your hotel room in venice. who cares if there’s a void in your soul. who cares if you can’t get attached to anyone. neither can michelangelo’s david.
wednesday, 3rd january
we love, appreciate, and respect shostakovich in this household
listening to: shostakovich’s 8th string quartet
1573 Italian translation of the Iliad. Carefully rebound to period-style.
IG : saint.rouge
Academia Book Recomendations
And, like, maybe a few movies too
- The Secret History By Donna Tartt (Obviously!)
- Dead Poets Society (Movie and Book)
- If We Were Villians by M.L. Rio (Very similiar to TSH, also a personal favorite)
- The History Boys by Alan Bennett (A play)
- Vicious by V.E. Schwab (I think more superhero oriented? Ive never read it)
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates
- The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
- The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
- Kill your Darlings (Movie, I hated it)
More Female oriented Academia books
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
- The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler
- The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
- Sleepwalking by Meg Wolizter
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (okay, only vaguely academic but still a good book)
- The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
- I heard the movie Mona Lisa Smile is good too
A list of some other academic school books
Feel free to add on to this post.