Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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as of july 25, i've finished tropic of cancer and the didion/babitz book. also, the airport is called billy bishop. i flew porter tho

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🦪 Song: I don't own the rights to this song lol
soundcloud.com/sandy-myles/2-biba-feat-slick-trick-toshi

0:00 - intro! i'm in toronto!
1:20 - now, i'm talking about what i'm reading
2:03 - baloney montage of toronto
2:30 - why am i reading 7 books? and talking about the ocean so much?
10:34 - such a minor update
11:04 - baloney montage of nyc
11:22 - mcnally's matrix though
11:34 - final reflections?

I don't own the music rights lol - song via soundcloud: soundcloud.com/djericfaria/edith-piaf-non-je-ne-regrette-rien-eric-faria-giovanni-gomes-remix_exclusive-bandcamp

🦪 BOOKS MENTIONED:
Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
Season of the Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik - reading with my pal @nathansnook
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman

🦪 RESTAURANTS:
Tim Hortons lol
Fika Cafe (the book wall)
Bar Raval
Popup Bagel