about me

I'm starting this website because I admire the neocities ethos and I'd like to improve my html/css and work on designs. plus, I'm going into a new phase of my life, and it'd be nice to have some way of documenting it.

some things I like:

• making zines
• learning chinese because I'm going to beijing in october
• learning spanish (for my academic research, so mostly reading, but hopefully speaking once I'm not so focused on chinese)
• cooking & baking - I like trying new recipes! although I've been very much slacking on the baking lately
• writing - something I'm trying to get back into the swing of now that I've graduated
• fish!

books

a list of books (interpreted liberally) I've read semi recently which I got something out of or particularly liked

• a tale for the time being - ruth ozeki
• the seaplane on final approach - rebecca rukeyser
• persuasion - jane austen
• jonathan strange and mr norrell - susanna clarke
• a song of ice and fire - george rr martin
• beloved - toni morrison
• worm - wildbow
• fargo - bavitz
• penance - eliza clarke
• giovanni's room - james baldwin
• the locked tomb - tamsyn muir
• severance - ling ma (no relation to the show, though I do like that too!)
• nevada - imogen binnie
• i capture the castle - dodie smith
• tenth of december - george saunders
• 17776 - jon bois