Lena Dunham Instagram – I’ve said it before on the app and I’ll say it again: I experience the sun as pressure.
It’s been so many damned years since I was the kid who ached (literally and figuratively) when thrown into the girl eat girl world of summer camp, who wept if she had to sit in a wet bathing suit or had sticky popsicle on her hands, who fought tooth and nail to be allowed to stay indoors and read as her sole summer activity but was told that healthy people do healthy things. I still remember the notebook I brought to day camp with me- it had a drowning Ophelia on the cover, which seemed extremely poetic to me as I avoided the lake and filled it with bad poetry.
Some people realize with delight once they’re out of their childhood home that they can eat dessert before dinner, that they can dance in the nude or stay up until 5am, whatever forbidden pleasure alluded them under parental rule. For me, it’s that my summer fun can be stealing away with a book, even (or especially) when the world says it’s time to frolic. The luck and luxury of having a job where I write, only to use so many of my non working hours to read, is one I’ll never get over. Reading and writing- they go together like peanut butter and jelly, like dogs and duvets, like Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
Here are some of my summer 2024 reads- all thought provoking, page turning, divinely personal- and all my favorite kind, the ones that make me want to write.
Wishing you a summer of happy reading and- if the outdoors is your thang- bathing suits that dry quickly in the sun ☀️ 👙 📕
Miss May Does Not Exist by @carriecourogen
Everything Nothing Someone by @firsteditionalice
Consent by Jill Ciment
Widow Basquiat by @jenniferclementauthor
You Get What You Pay For by @morganapple0
Nothing Natural by Jenny Diski
No Judgement by @lawandoyler
Stash by @lauracathcartrobbins
Love Junkie by Robert Plunket | Posted on 06/Jul/2024 19:54:57
