Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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it's a new month, and spring is on my mind! here's a short list of books that evoke certain facets of spring for me, although not necessarily what you might expect 🌱

books:
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970)
Permafrost by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2018)
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel (trans. Rosalind Harvey) (2020)
Near to the Wild Heart, Clarice Lispector (trans. Alison Entrekin) (1943)
10:04 by Ben Lerner (2014)
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders (2021)
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon (2020)
Un monde à portée de main (Painting Time) by Maylis de Kerangal (2018)
Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress (2022)
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing (2024)
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman (1991)

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