...your eyes caught mine and played with me before you set me free

look what came in!! • Marcel Proust's Swann's Way • my favorite edition of my number one and my next tattoo inspiration

Jorge Luján's 'Trunk to Trunklet' • a picture book • beautifully illustrated using frottage (as developed by surrealist Max Ernst) and hand drawing techniques • check out the author, illustrator, and translator bios on the inside cover flap—inspiring!

Danielle Dutton's 'Margaret the First' • unconventional 17th c. Duchess. feminist philosopher. author of utopian science fiction. • for further reading check out Molly Peacock's 'The Paper Garden'

"Those early months, it was as if I had lost a layer of skin—I woke up laughing, or crying. I felt everything more intensely, saw everything as if a filter had been removed. I ate new foods, walked strange streets, spoke to people in a language that wasn't mine."

Spent so much time agonizing over what book to bring along to #BEA16 and never even cracked the cover. I know better.

"I'm in love with you and you don't want anything to do with me so I think we can make this work: a love story."