Reading, Writing, and Me

Liquid  by Mariam Rahmani Overview: Liquid 's narrator decides to test out the joke we've all made at one time or another. "All my problems would be solved if I married rich." After struggling to get a foothold in academia or a book deal after graduating from UCLA's PhD program, the narrator decides that marrying rich is the only way to both solve her problems and get ahead. So in the summer of her unemployment, she breaks out a spreadsheet and starts a new project. You can't marry rich without dating, and you need a large sample size to find a match, so she sets out to go on 100 dates, multiple per day, in her study period. Alongside this, there's the tension with her longtime best friend Adam and a diversion to Iran when her father has a heart attack. Liquid  sets out to answer the fundamental question we're all faced with: how do we adult under these conditions?  Overall: 4.25 Characters: 5  The character construction here is the masterwork of the n...

I don't want to talk about March... I had so much discipline in February, and it all went out the window this month. I started strong, on a whirlwind 3 day trip to New York City and then came back so tired that I let everything fall by the wayside for the rest of the month. I had taken the app timers off my phone for the trip, and I never put them back on, so I had unfettered Instagram and Internet access all month. I spent more of my time scrolling through the r/Broadway thread than I want to admit. I felt a little nauseous when my screen time report popped up with over 7 hours for last week. Doing kind things for my body went right out the window with the phone usage, losing all my discipline from February. Needless to say, the reading aspect of my life also could've gone better.  The one thing I will defend myself on is that I always struggle to read other fiction while I'm editing my own, and I spent March editing the draft I wrote in February. I've been making myse...