Messy side table showcasing how busy and pushed for time I am as the year comes to a close. Frosty mornings with hot coffee find me sitting by candlelight and reflecting on all that has happened this year.
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| my messy side table today |
I've been deeply reflective, intensely focused on how desperate I am for 2025 to be starkly different and more directed than 2024.
Reading is a safe place for me and increases my wellbeing 100 fold, and I have some pretty cozy plans and intentions for my reading life in 2025.
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| love this edition |
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| tab city: so many wise gems in this novel |
I am loving Mrs. Dalloway and cannot believe it has taken me this long to read it. Absolutely in love with how situated in time and place the novel is. Virginia Woolf is a gorgeous prose stylist, and this novel is already on my "will re-read forever" list.
Reading this novel slowly and deeply late at night when I have some free time has been so beautiful. I definitely have other books scaffolded around this novel, but in the chance that I finish it before december 31st, I have plans to re-read Jane Eyre.
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this will be my first read of this edition |
I thought I would make it out of 2024 without re-reading Jane Eyre, but the dark moors are calling me, so I have to answer the call of the Brontës and sink down into this fantastic tale of sadness, quiet despair, strong character, love, and redemption.
Jane Eyre remains one of my top 3 favorite novels of all time, and normally I don't pass a late Autumn or Winter season without reading most or all of this novel.
I'm sending warmth and love your way and hoping that if (like me) life has battered you on the shores of 2024, that you take some time for deep reflection as the winter solstice nears and remember that there is a soft space to land inside of the best works of literature.
Happy reading and be well ☕️
