PERSEPHONE BOOKS

 

There are a few things that I've just had innate gut feelings about in a really obnoxious wont-stop-talking-about-it way (example), and after stumbling upon their website, Persephone Books was one of them.

I recognized the books immediately from my mother's bookshelf back at home, and once I learned what they were about, I couldn't imagine why I hadn't been obsessed with them before (it's more likely that my mom told me about all this but I did the yeah-uh huh-cool thing and didn't process any of it....xoxo mom). A more detailed look into Persephone Books can be found here, but the gist of it is they take under appreciated women authors from the past and re/publish them so they can get the attention they deserve.

Look below to see what I got! Yaaaaaaay for recklessly spending my stipend.

AN ODE TO LAS IGUANAS

 

I asked Abby and Carolyn to give me some quotes about our favorite restaurant, Las Iguanas:

• "satisfied"
• "uplifted"
• "wholesome"
• "not a place to go when horribly hungover"
• "enchanting"
• "perfectly spiced"
• "hot sauce available but not necessary"
• now they're talking about art projects wtf you guyssss

There's an acrostic poem in there somewhere, but for now let's just look at pretty pictures.

WINE AND LITERATURE: A TALK AND TASTING

This has been a suuuuuuper slow first week that I think I slept at least 60% of, but last night we got a chance to celebrate our triumphant return with a wine tasting in Topsham. I don't mean to brag, but I'm a preeeetty heavy connoisseur of wines less than seven dollars, so it was nice to eat meat and cheese and pizza while checking out how the other half lives. If you want my hastily scribbled notes based on a complete ignorance of fine wine, keep reading.

SCRAPS OF BREAK

FROM A SMALL ISLAND // 5