new vocab:

Insensate - lacking human feeling/unfeeling Flibbertigibbet – bird brain Regale – to entertain Soliloquies – act of talking to oneself indolence – laziness elliptical – oval-like; relating to an ellipse Dilettantes – having only a superficial interest in art/any branch of knowledge Epochal – Epoch - event or time that marks an event or period of development Ephemeral – lasting only a short time Effete – soft/delicate/pampered existence ostentatious – seeking attention naif – a naïve person inoculate – to imbue briquette – brick shaped something amanuensis – employee who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts imperturbable – extreme calmness

thoughts throughout reading

currently reading a little life, im still quite early on in the book, still at the part where Willem and Jude just moved into their home at Lispenard st and lawd. The tension is killing me b/n these two precious boys. (ps I love willem pls he truly is a pussy magnet) anw im at the part where theyre describing jude’s pain on his leg and I am SCAREDDD what type of shit has he gone thru to be this..idk reserved??

Love how the author humanizes the characters revolving around jude’s life, it’s refreshing to see their faults and shitty attitudes—it’s human

“Nothing will help…I just have to wait” pg 24