the big local publishing houses could announce if they restocked certain authors books but finally bagged a copy of merlinda bobis’ the kindness of birds 🦢🫶
reading non-fiction essay collections nowadays and the ones i like so far are mary gaitskill’s somebody with a little hammer and italo calvino’s collection of sand
my sisters leaning on me for their school supply runs is such a novel thing for me bc i never had someone who would advise me what stuff to pick out (dad was hands-off and just let me go ham and mom was extremely busy and often away)
carous_ll app an evil evil place someone is selling hard to find artbooks and im here staring at their listing pages longingly (in all seriousness it is a good place for finding niche fandom stuff)
trivial problem in the grand scale of things (and of living in the ph) but convention tickets (and wth lets add in concert tickets as well) have such steep price hikes like what goes on