For your stray attention this weekend

What I've been reading while I’m wondering who I am

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Hello,

I didn’t really mean to write about the grinding process of personal change in this week’s newsletter. I actually meant to write something nice about creativity and the solstice. But there you have it: when I sit down to write, I’m honestly never sure what’s about to come out. I keep imagining my therapist reading it and thinking, She spends the last three interminable weeks talking about train schedules and then she writes this for her fucking newsletter? What gives?!

So anyway, what have I been reading while I’m wondering who I am? Quite a lot of books, to be honest. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve gulped down Deborah Levy’s Real Estate (it helped), Samantha Irby’s Quietly Hostile (that woman is a genius of the mundane; I’d read her shopping list), and, like everyone else, R. F. Kuang’s Yellowface (loved it).