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my name is gabbie. i am a college student studying french, sociology and japanese. i don't like to remain stationary, if i could, i would spend every semester in a different state, country and college. i don't know whats stopping me save for my own cowardice.


here you'll find mostly pictures (none of which are mine unless noted otherwise) that interest me, food porn, excerpts from books i am reading or want to read, random memes and occasionally something insightful or political.

i am fascinated by languages, culture, words, sociology, politics.

if you're a polyglot, please follow me!

WHAT I ACTUALLY READ OVER WINTER BREAK:

Here is what I aimed for:

“…my BARE MINIMUM winter reading list is as follows:

  • The Power Elite - C. Wright Mills.
  • Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
  • The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
  • Nausea - Sartre
  • Culture of Fear -Barry Glassner
  • The Construction of Social Reality - John R. Searle
  • Tartuffe- Moliere
  • Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
  • The Jungle - Sinclair  …”

After procrastination/pure laziness, here is what was actually accomplished:

  • Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (good but overrated. ..and BTW the movie looks awful)
  • The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
  • The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories (including “The Death of Ivan Ilych”) - Leo Tolstoy ( i now LOVE Tolstoy and can’t wait to dig into his novels)
  • Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner (will make you never want to watch the news again…)
  • Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America- Barbara Ehrenreich (great insight/perspective but feels stretched at times…comes off as rather abrasive in her view but the read is still worth your time)
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Mark Haddon (really intriguing and fun to read but the ending disappointed me)
  • Half of The Winter of Our Discontent - Steinbeck (couldn’t get into it…i love Steinbeck’s message but he is often too wordy for me to enjoy)
  • Half of The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells (again, couldn’t get into it)

so i guess i didn’t do too poorly but still.


January 25