This April, I’m thinking about love (again, always). It’ll be my last spring in a city where Ive most loved spring because of how the city blooms: tulips, magnolias, people. In revisiting spots I love before I move, I’m also reminded of the friends I’ve taken there & want most to write into my love for / with / to friends (present, past, utterly bitter past). I’ve tried many times to write about love & it was never to my liking or maybe I wasn’t ready at the time, but even more daunting…what language even remotely tends to it all? And then, how do you write in a way that invites others to witness this too? So I’m reading and re-reading.

What are your favorite friendship poems? Mine are:

• For Grace, after the party by Frank O’Hara

• acknowledgements by Danez Smith (from their collection Homie, which is allll about friendships)

• Poem by Langston Hughes (https://poets.org/poem/poem-26)

• Laura, I want you pulling your hair back by Natalie Dunn

• Tomorrow is a Place by Sanna Wani (which is a superb poem on its own but one I love because it is written about and for someone I love)

• Somewhere Real by Shira Erlichman

• Moon for Aisha by Aracelis Girmay

• Paul Robeson by Gwendolyn Brooks

How do you all like to read a series?

Do you binge it all, finishing one book and moving onto the next in the series? Or do you read one book then have a few palette cleansers before progressing with the series?

I find sometimes when I binge a series I can get a bit fed up of the world or characters and feel like I then slow down my reading due to getting a bit bored of the same thing🫩 However, when I take a break in between, I can struggle to remember details from the previous books🤦🏼‍♀️

How do you tackle a series, or do you just avoid them? Any tips and tricks, I am curious✨

Happy Easter to those who celebrate. Happy long weekend to those who get one. And general happy weekend vibes to everyone else.

What are your plans for the weekend? Are you going to get some time to read? Starting a new book? Seeing family? School work catch-up (of whatever level)? The boring odds and ends of life?

I'm skipping a family event on Sunday, but I have an Easter afternoon tea tomorrow, which should be fun. Other than that, I'll be reading either the book I started this morning or the book I can't get out of my mind (I hate my Insta algorithm right now for introducing me to this).