my choice of literature rn
I don't recall the last time I've ever read a good book. Magazines, especially fashion magazines leafing through is a daily constant however. Vivi and Nylon are eternal favorites of mine. I'm looking to owning some French Vogue, Swedish Styleby and Australian Russh one day, too. I'm definitely getting pickier lately with what I put in my bookshelf as I am with what goes into my shoe, clothes and accessories collection. It's a thing that happens when one grows, I guess, especially with someone who went through and still goes through multiple phases like myself.
Lately, my tastes in literature or rather, books, I noticed, is becoming a hybrid of my esoteric stuff-loving early-, mid- and late-teen years (this is marked by my, at the time and possibly until now, The Craft cult film of the 90s and 90s cult tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed obsessed self) and pop arts and culture-loving early-, mid- and current late-20s. I know. I'm pretty weird. I don't really get it either and this is me looking into myself here. I came into this realization browsing through UrbanOutfitters' selection of books online
. Here are a few things I'm currently thinking of having/owning:
Astrology books. Astrology is something I find fun and I don't even dwell a lot in the daily newspaper's and monthly fashion and lifestyle magazines' horroscope pages. I'm of the school of thought that believes that astrology, especially those deciphered from one's natal or birth chart shouldn't be used to divine things in life, rather knowledge of the meaning of one's natal or birth chart should be a guide to navigating, surviving and actually living life. I'd like to learn more about Astrology. This might've started since I read stuff on it on ohnotheydidnt.
Bonus points if the astrology books are written in the language the appoximation of those found in children's books with fun and possibly somewhat dreamy illustrations to match. I'm a simpleton (simple minded someone) and I can only really take niched topics' words/technical stuff one at a time.
Whimsical spellbooks and wicca. Assembling my own wiccan altar in the room and DIY-ing my own Book
of Shadows is still really at the back of my mind. I'm admittedly a witch in (lifetime) training, wanna-be fairy scum.
Dreams and dreaming. Freudian psychoanalysis for literary criticism is outdated to me (I don't agree with his psychosexual theories either) but I have weird dreams in the REM state from time to time---it's not really helping that I'm already weird based on my tastes like I love horror, everyone else of the same gender as me that I know of avoid it or hate it---so this could be helpful to me.
General esoteric and new age literature. I'm mildly interested in the tarot. Apothecary is basically Hogwartian potions making/class in the real world. I'm familiar with both from random everywhere online readings. I'll take anything as long as it's esoteric and new age in real time, however.
Understated classics. I still don't have Joseph Campbell's book
on Mythology and that one is supposed to be the bible for us, myth and legends stans/enthusiasts. Seen it a few times in National Bookstore chains and even Fully Booked
however. And my choice of literary drug as of late is anything southern (mostly US/America) gothic. Yes, Faulkner. And yes, everything Edgar Allan Poe. The latter's compilation of everything still continues to escape me and I keep seeing it in NBS, too. I don't mind new-to-me southern gothic writers' works, though. I was able to discover a good one via a Clnt Eastwood film, The Beguiled. As with most southern gothic films (I'm also a massive fan of southern gothic/evocative, highly creative and supernatural-y/beyond the natural noir, slightly sleazy [the american southern way] genre of films), this is based on a book of the same genre. I found it on Amazon while randomly doing a search of it there after having finished watching the film on Cinemax one time.
I also don't mind literature with detectives and crime stuff in there. One can never have enough of Sherlock Holmes after all.
Locally...I'm a stan of Dean Alfar and Nick Joaquin. Magical realism or South American literature is a weakness of mine that flared up since having read a lot of these in class while a post-graduate literary studies student (masters). Dean and Nick, the latter deceased, are known magical realism writers in our locality. Check out their works if you're into these as well. A lot of their works are indeed superior to those of regular Filipino writers'.
Classic children's literature that aren't just for children. I've outgrown most fairytales but I like the odd weird but fun and inslightful children's books
stuff especially if they're classics like Where the Wild Things Are that has been turned into film at one point. Someone borrowed my last copy of The Little Prince (Les Petite Prince) and never returned it to me. Tsk.
Warhol, pop art and southern californian (surf and skate) photography/coffeetable books
. I'm a pop arts and culture whore. I think my tastes in music already give justice to that. This one crosses over to my art-loving self as well. And I'm also obsessed with Kate Moss's photobooks from Amazon
.
I'm a fan of the classical painter Van Gogh but if I ever wanted photobooks and such of classical painters' works, like maybe an ancient arts book, encyclopedia of some sort...? Hmn...probably not so much. I appreciate the classics and am thankful for them for paving the way for what is now pop art however...I'd rather really focus on the now and therefore pop art, urban photography etc because they're so much more...now? I guess. And so much more inspiring in my book.
Simplify your life books
. I'm still thinking of getting that Marie Kondo book
as well, yes. Bibles to simple, minimal living and de-stress-ifying oneself is a dire need for me. I already have one from one of the couple of Booksale branches here titled The Art of Doing Nothing. Old but great find, really.
My end goal for this is basically to have a cleaner, clutter free surrounding with me being able to live on just the things I need especially in the wardrobe department. Lol. Also, as a seasonal depressed someone who's likely suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression (it isn't severe, I think) and social anxiety, I need the coping with stress, really relaxing coffeetable-ish book things.
Vegetarian, vegan cookbooks/lifestyle guides. I am pescetarian but about 99.9 percent vegetarian at the moment. Not only am I weird but neurotic as well. I also comb the magazine bins of every Booksale around I find for vegetarian, vegan magazines and yoga and running/fitness magazines from time to time. Never really walked out with anything I found from there. I'll get some maybe next time.
Anyone thinking of gifting
me pieces of literature because some really good friends who do for Christmas and the birthday for instance, can take a cue from this list to figure out the kind of literature I'm into.
Seriously speaking, though, I'm quite easy to brighten up or please when it comes to gifting
stuff to. I like stationeries a lot so cute and dainty letter sets, notepads and notebooks are fine with me. I have this odd fixation with varied notebooks and notepads I can't really figure out with myself. I turned one I bought from Daiso into a planner I shunned somewhere and haven't been using.
And...of course, magazines. Fashion magazines. Even if they are back issues of Nylon and/or British, Australian and American Vogue...and even Teen Vogue I probably have already.
Gifting me books
is a little bit tricky however, especially if they're fiction ones because I'm really picky when it comes to modern day teens, young adults novels and stuff. Most of the time, I just really prefer the classic stuff like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings (anything Tolkien?) and a few others. I don't read The Hunger Games (it's too Battle Royal-ish for me), 50 Shades of Gray, Twilight series (though I do have an off/on love for Kristen Stewart...I'm a bigger Dunst fan/stan) and...err...A Song of Fire and Ice (or however that thing goes title-wise...I forgot, haha). My top 3 genres of fiction are so far: southern gothic (US/American), crime/detective/police procedurals (light novels in Japan that are all about this are amazing, I daresay...I've come across a few already [those that are english translated]) and magic realism/South American literature. I also like horror since some southern gothic fiction works have a bit of horror in them.
Non-fiction...I like some travel coffeetable/photobooks (bonus if it's of Japan or maybe even Hong Kong) and/or guidebooks and then there's the oddball Patti Smith stuff. I already have her Just Kids book thanks to a Booksale branch I went to. I think that was Robinsons Dumaguete's. As to the travel guides books
stuff...I've been leafing through my dad's book on Ankor Wat (Cambodia) and his Seoul, South Korea guide book. The latter I'd been doing as I've been thinking of going to Seoul for a random visit. Just to see whatever is there. I'm usually not a fan of South Korea and China as far as east asian countries go. Hong Kong, Taiwan and the south east asian countries: Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore (and my own, Philippines) are my favorites. I'm also liking Laos and Cambodia somehow.
Activity books... I noticed there are a lot these days cropping up but I'm pretty much crap at sudoku...really hopeless. Crossword puzzles puzzle to the point of frustrate me especially while in the middle of completing those in newspapers or so. Connect the dots is interesting but I think mazes stuff are so much more fun. I like the latter as much as I like board games. And I'm lukewarm to a lot of board games. I think they're fun to be done with really cool good friends. Ah...word finds are more my thing. I used to have a couple of those from a relative I ended up completing a month or two after getting them. The large print kinds. I've been traumatized by coloring books or rather a hybrid of that and random creative artistic activities book thanks to Bo's St. Art: A Coffee + Creativity Journal a friend helped me get thinking it would be a good idea to have one. I do like visual art but the only thing I can ever do with a pencil or a pen and a piece of paper or notebook is doodle, do some random anime drawing/sketch that comes to mind and even more pointless doodling/writing. I'm more of a crafter and piece-together-things-er. Coloring...I'm not very good with handling colors, to be honest. Even my wardrobe palette is pretty much the usual earthy naturals err...shades. Black, white and grey being the most dominant. Pops of color is the only thing I can really tolerate although visually, especially in some whimsical published piece of...err...book, I'm fine with as long as I don't get required to actually put color myself in them. Haha. I've already outgrown these kinds of activity books, I think. So it's pretty dicey and pointless giving me anything like them unless maybe it's the word find kind. You'd probably be better off giving me a blank notebook I can do something else with, somehow. Plus they're way more affordable/cheaper?
I do try to catch up to modern day novels now and then. Children's, young adults and adults alike. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar is in my periphery at the moment but I haven't really gotten around to acquiring it and reading it. I'd like to watch the Tim Burton film of it, however. I like Tim but not really a huge fan. Just...I like him and his works, I suppose. Also, I'd like very much to see how Asa Butterfield fares as lead in the film as a good friend on Twitter has mentioned him to me a few times while flailing on the recent X-Men film release. I'm not entirely sure yet what to think of the gothic-ish young adult stuff in the book store
shelves I've been seeing others like my one bibliophile cousin buy (on Barnes and Noble for instance).
When it comes to fiction literature/books, I could be pretty much a modernist, too. I am mostly a modernist in everything from music to art to yes, literature or soon to be literature anyway. Even if I've mentioned in the above paragraph that I'm picky with my choice of modern books, I actually do read some new releases now and then. I still have the Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars book series uncompleted on my bookshelf at the moment and I've been meaning to complete them by way of ebayPH or some other. Haha. I like my modern day stuff a little bit trashy but more...err...girly than supernatural-y or horror-y. I don't know, I'm not really that much into today's writers' foray into the classic global myths and legends I'm so into as many a times have those been butchered for me in fictional writing. Sparkly vampires in the Twilight series that are also vegan? Uhhh...no thanks.
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Anyway, yes, it's sunday and it's a quiet day at home thing for me. Dad is still in Camiguin island or he's probably on his way home by now. I'm bummed he went and didn't bring anyone (me /cries) along. He could've just left me in Ardent Hot Spring while he went mountain climbing in Mt. Hibok-hibok.
Yeah, well, I want to go to the beach or any beach and/or pool resort. /cries. It's still hot most days although it's been raining here and there. The rainy season is here and it's time for my seasonal depression to kick in and it's been the case for awhile now. Even a staycation at a local hotel
here would be fine for me. Heh. I need some good contents for the main fashion and lifestyle blog somehow. I've been toying with the idea of posting from Monday to Friday or even until Saturday, outfits I come up with on a daily basis...possibly up until December this year or January next year. We'll see. I don't really know either but I'm trying to be more active there lately. The weather should cooperate somehow, however. :( It rains in the afternoons when I am scheduling shoots. :|
And until the next post then.
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Lately, my tastes in literature or rather, books, I noticed, is becoming a hybrid of my esoteric stuff-loving early-, mid- and late-teen years (this is marked by my, at the time and possibly until now, The Craft cult film of the 90s and 90s cult tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed obsessed self) and pop arts and culture-loving early-, mid- and current late-20s. I know. I'm pretty weird. I don't really get it either and this is me looking into myself here. I came into this realization browsing through UrbanOutfitters' selection of books online
. Here are a few things I'm currently thinking of having/owning:
Astrology books. Astrology is something I find fun and I don't even dwell a lot in the daily newspaper's and monthly fashion and lifestyle magazines' horroscope pages. I'm of the school of thought that believes that astrology, especially those deciphered from one's natal or birth chart shouldn't be used to divine things in life, rather knowledge of the meaning of one's natal or birth chart should be a guide to navigating, surviving and actually living life. I'd like to learn more about Astrology. This might've started since I read stuff on it on ohnotheydidnt.
Bonus points if the astrology books are written in the language the appoximation of those found in children's books with fun and possibly somewhat dreamy illustrations to match. I'm a simpleton (simple minded someone) and I can only really take niched topics' words/technical stuff one at a time.
Whimsical spellbooks and wicca. Assembling my own wiccan altar in the room and DIY-ing my own Book
of Shadows is still really at the back of my mind. I'm admittedly a witch in (lifetime) training, wanna-be fairy scum.
Dreams and dreaming. Freudian psychoanalysis for literary criticism is outdated to me (I don't agree with his psychosexual theories either) but I have weird dreams in the REM state from time to time---it's not really helping that I'm already weird based on my tastes like I love horror, everyone else of the same gender as me that I know of avoid it or hate it---so this could be helpful to me.
General esoteric and new age literature. I'm mildly interested in the tarot. Apothecary is basically Hogwartian potions making/class in the real world. I'm familiar with both from random everywhere online readings. I'll take anything as long as it's esoteric and new age in real time, however.
Understated classics. I still don't have Joseph Campbell's book
on Mythology and that one is supposed to be the bible for us, myth and legends stans/enthusiasts. Seen it a few times in National Bookstore chains and even Fully Booked
however. And my choice of literary drug as of late is anything southern (mostly US/America) gothic. Yes, Faulkner. And yes, everything Edgar Allan Poe. The latter's compilation of everything still continues to escape me and I keep seeing it in NBS, too. I don't mind new-to-me southern gothic writers' works, though. I was able to discover a good one via a Clnt Eastwood film, The Beguiled. As with most southern gothic films (I'm also a massive fan of southern gothic/evocative, highly creative and supernatural-y/beyond the natural noir, slightly sleazy [the american southern way] genre of films), this is based on a book of the same genre. I found it on Amazon while randomly doing a search of it there after having finished watching the film on Cinemax one time.
I also don't mind literature with detectives and crime stuff in there. One can never have enough of Sherlock Holmes after all.
Locally...I'm a stan of Dean Alfar and Nick Joaquin. Magical realism or South American literature is a weakness of mine that flared up since having read a lot of these in class while a post-graduate literary studies student (masters). Dean and Nick, the latter deceased, are known magical realism writers in our locality. Check out their works if you're into these as well. A lot of their works are indeed superior to those of regular Filipino writers'.
Classic children's literature that aren't just for children. I've outgrown most fairytales but I like the odd weird but fun and inslightful children's books
stuff especially if they're classics like Where the Wild Things Are that has been turned into film at one point. Someone borrowed my last copy of The Little Prince (Les Petite Prince) and never returned it to me. Tsk.
Warhol, pop art and southern californian (surf and skate) photography/coffeetable books
. I'm a pop arts and culture whore. I think my tastes in music already give justice to that. This one crosses over to my art-loving self as well. And I'm also obsessed with Kate Moss's photobooks from Amazon
.
I'm a fan of the classical painter Van Gogh but if I ever wanted photobooks and such of classical painters' works, like maybe an ancient arts book, encyclopedia of some sort...? Hmn...probably not so much. I appreciate the classics and am thankful for them for paving the way for what is now pop art however...I'd rather really focus on the now and therefore pop art, urban photography etc because they're so much more...now? I guess. And so much more inspiring in my book.
Simplify your life books
. I'm still thinking of getting that Marie Kondo book
as well, yes. Bibles to simple, minimal living and de-stress-ifying oneself is a dire need for me. I already have one from one of the couple of Booksale branches here titled The Art of Doing Nothing. Old but great find, really.
My end goal for this is basically to have a cleaner, clutter free surrounding with me being able to live on just the things I need especially in the wardrobe department. Lol. Also, as a seasonal depressed someone who's likely suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression (it isn't severe, I think) and social anxiety, I need the coping with stress, really relaxing coffeetable-ish book things.
Vegetarian, vegan cookbooks/lifestyle guides. I am pescetarian but about 99.9 percent vegetarian at the moment. Not only am I weird but neurotic as well. I also comb the magazine bins of every Booksale around I find for vegetarian, vegan magazines and yoga and running/fitness magazines from time to time. Never really walked out with anything I found from there. I'll get some maybe next time.
Anyone thinking of gifting
me pieces of literature because some really good friends who do for Christmas and the birthday for instance, can take a cue from this list to figure out the kind of literature I'm into.
Seriously speaking, though, I'm quite easy to brighten up or please when it comes to gifting
stuff to. I like stationeries a lot so cute and dainty letter sets, notepads and notebooks are fine with me. I have this odd fixation with varied notebooks and notepads I can't really figure out with myself. I turned one I bought from Daiso into a planner I shunned somewhere and haven't been using.
And...of course, magazines. Fashion magazines. Even if they are back issues of Nylon and/or British, Australian and American Vogue...and even Teen Vogue I probably have already.
Gifting me books
is a little bit tricky however, especially if they're fiction ones because I'm really picky when it comes to modern day teens, young adults novels and stuff. Most of the time, I just really prefer the classic stuff like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings (anything Tolkien?) and a few others. I don't read The Hunger Games (it's too Battle Royal-ish for me), 50 Shades of Gray, Twilight series (though I do have an off/on love for Kristen Stewart...I'm a bigger Dunst fan/stan) and...err...A Song of Fire and Ice (or however that thing goes title-wise...I forgot, haha). My top 3 genres of fiction are so far: southern gothic (US/American), crime/detective/police procedurals (light novels in Japan that are all about this are amazing, I daresay...I've come across a few already [those that are english translated]) and magic realism/South American literature. I also like horror since some southern gothic fiction works have a bit of horror in them.
Non-fiction...I like some travel coffeetable/photobooks (bonus if it's of Japan or maybe even Hong Kong) and/or guidebooks and then there's the oddball Patti Smith stuff. I already have her Just Kids book thanks to a Booksale branch I went to. I think that was Robinsons Dumaguete's. As to the travel guides books
stuff...I've been leafing through my dad's book on Ankor Wat (Cambodia) and his Seoul, South Korea guide book. The latter I'd been doing as I've been thinking of going to Seoul for a random visit. Just to see whatever is there. I'm usually not a fan of South Korea and China as far as east asian countries go. Hong Kong, Taiwan and the south east asian countries: Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore (and my own, Philippines) are my favorites. I'm also liking Laos and Cambodia somehow.
Activity books... I noticed there are a lot these days cropping up but I'm pretty much crap at sudoku...really hopeless. Crossword puzzles puzzle to the point of frustrate me especially while in the middle of completing those in newspapers or so. Connect the dots is interesting but I think mazes stuff are so much more fun. I like the latter as much as I like board games. And I'm lukewarm to a lot of board games. I think they're fun to be done with really cool good friends. Ah...word finds are more my thing. I used to have a couple of those from a relative I ended up completing a month or two after getting them. The large print kinds. I've been traumatized by coloring books or rather a hybrid of that and random creative artistic activities book thanks to Bo's St. Art: A Coffee + Creativity Journal a friend helped me get thinking it would be a good idea to have one. I do like visual art but the only thing I can ever do with a pencil or a pen and a piece of paper or notebook is doodle, do some random anime drawing/sketch that comes to mind and even more pointless doodling/writing. I'm more of a crafter and piece-together-things-er. Coloring...I'm not very good with handling colors, to be honest. Even my wardrobe palette is pretty much the usual earthy naturals err...shades. Black, white and grey being the most dominant. Pops of color is the only thing I can really tolerate although visually, especially in some whimsical published piece of...err...book, I'm fine with as long as I don't get required to actually put color myself in them. Haha. I've already outgrown these kinds of activity books, I think. So it's pretty dicey and pointless giving me anything like them unless maybe it's the word find kind. You'd probably be better off giving me a blank notebook I can do something else with, somehow. Plus they're way more affordable/cheaper?
I do try to catch up to modern day novels now and then. Children's, young adults and adults alike. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar is in my periphery at the moment but I haven't really gotten around to acquiring it and reading it. I'd like to watch the Tim Burton film of it, however. I like Tim but not really a huge fan. Just...I like him and his works, I suppose. Also, I'd like very much to see how Asa Butterfield fares as lead in the film as a good friend on Twitter has mentioned him to me a few times while flailing on the recent X-Men film release. I'm not entirely sure yet what to think of the gothic-ish young adult stuff in the book store
shelves I've been seeing others like my one bibliophile cousin buy (on Barnes and Noble for instance).
When it comes to fiction literature/books, I could be pretty much a modernist, too. I am mostly a modernist in everything from music to art to yes, literature or soon to be literature anyway. Even if I've mentioned in the above paragraph that I'm picky with my choice of modern books, I actually do read some new releases now and then. I still have the Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars book series uncompleted on my bookshelf at the moment and I've been meaning to complete them by way of ebayPH or some other. Haha. I like my modern day stuff a little bit trashy but more...err...girly than supernatural-y or horror-y. I don't know, I'm not really that much into today's writers' foray into the classic global myths and legends I'm so into as many a times have those been butchered for me in fictional writing. Sparkly vampires in the Twilight series that are also vegan? Uhhh...no thanks.
***
Anyway, yes, it's sunday and it's a quiet day at home thing for me. Dad is still in Camiguin island or he's probably on his way home by now. I'm bummed he went and didn't bring anyone (me /cries) along. He could've just left me in Ardent Hot Spring while he went mountain climbing in Mt. Hibok-hibok.
Yeah, well, I want to go to the beach or any beach and/or pool resort. /cries. It's still hot most days although it's been raining here and there. The rainy season is here and it's time for my seasonal depression to kick in and it's been the case for awhile now. Even a staycation at a local hotel
here would be fine for me. Heh. I need some good contents for the main fashion and lifestyle blog somehow. I've been toying with the idea of posting from Monday to Friday or even until Saturday, outfits I come up with on a daily basis...possibly up until December this year or January next year. We'll see. I don't really know either but I'm trying to be more active there lately. The weather should cooperate somehow, however. :( It rains in the afternoons when I am scheduling shoots. :|
And until the next post then.
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