10 things of interest #14
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It’s been a while since I’ve done a roundup and it’s time to resume them. I’ve saved many writers’ works over the last few weeks, so here are a few of my favourites. Happy Sunday!
In “A visit from the boob fairy,” Annabelle Tometich writes about the parallels between her hidden identity as Jean Le Boeuf, a restaurant critic, and padding out her bras as a flat-chested woman through her teens and adulthood. It’s a great read about accepting yourself, even if it is fifteen years later.
- piece “The scariest thing at Silverwood” story is simple — you have to step on a scale to get on a water ride at a theme park. But the deeper message tells the narrative of being plus-sized, of body shame, and of a society that has put slender women at the forefront of everything.
- instructions for “How to write a love letter” is beautifully written and I love the examples she gives. A little snippet: “If you’re going to write about love, write about it with the intensity it deserves. Love isn’t lukewarm; it’s a fever, it’s a storm. It’s special enough to make you prefer a person above everyone else.”
- from Book Enthusiast shared a handful of Vacation reads. I then added every single one to my Kindle TB (to buy) list. She brilliantly breaks it down into a handful of different categories from Make Me Cry to Make Me Feel Smart.
As a long-time reader of
, I adore the way she writes about creativity and her honesty in exploring the way we think and feel about it. In “The things we do for love,” she discusses the creative side projects that she’s put aside. As she states, “For every idea or project that leads to something, there are countless that don’t.” She expands on having to press pause on a podcast she produced, edited and wrote simply because without the support, it was unsustainable. She later acknowledges the labour of love and recognises “it’s not a failure to put a side project to the side.”As someone who is in the middle of writing a novel and very much in the bunker of a first rough draft,
tips for creating “Scene Magic”was insightful in helping me step back and create a scene worth reading, while also pushing the story along.
If there’s anything to know about me, it’s that I’ve found the age of my twenties to be both a joy and wildly stressful. In “Your twenties are a second chance at teenagehood”
writes comforting sentiments about ageing and finding the “new challenge of adulthood to navigate.”Why spend £11 on store-bought granola or even fresh stuff made from a bougie cafe when you’re likely to have at least half the ingredients in your pantry?
’s “Chocolate tahini granola” is a must-make.- ’s examination in “Maybe You're Not Anxiously Attached” blew me away. I enjoyed her breakdown of our current culture’s need to label any sort of attachment feeling as some deep-rooted personal issue or something we need to self-scrutinise. She later writes that we just need to stand up for ourselves and recognise that we are not always the problem, sometimes we are in the wrong relationship.
- writes introspectively about beauty and feeling beautiful in “Am i hot enough for a good life?” She narrates what I think every woman has experienced at least once if not dozens more. I know I have. This statement rings alarmingly true for me: “When I’m failing to feel beautiful, I crave stillness. I wish to not be seen or perceived until further notice. I crave nothingness because deciding to fully live despite not meeting my standards of hotness would require me to take the radical, unapologetic step to self-acceptance — something I, nearing 26 years of age, have still not been able to learn.”
What a lovely list! Happy to be included!
Thank you for including my chocolate tahini granola recipe! 🥰