Mar 11, 2024
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Just go this book, Nin is my favorite writer. Delta Venus erotica was my first book I read from her. Today I got her diary from the twenties, volume 2, to be exact. I didn’t know but there was different volumes, which are different eras of her life being written by her. I took a picture of the library checkout because it’s from my university library and it hasn’t been checked out since 2004. (Broke the streak).
Feb 6, 2024
I’ve had this infamous volume Incest: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, for years; I honestly just bought it because of the provocative title and because I had heard of her but was unfamiliar with her or her work (sub-rec: finally reading the books you actually own that have been sitting on the shelf).
The concept of the narratives we create about our own lives has been on my mind lately as I write a narrative of my own; I was reminded of Nin when thinking about what Gore Vidal wrote (and didn’t write!) about her in his memoir, Palimpsest.
After reading interviews with her + and articles about her life and her approach to publishing her journals (linked)—and seeing myself in her ways of coping, processing, and engaging with the world—I’m very excited to interrupt my own languorous navel-gazing reflection during my protracted period of post-holiday down-time and delve into hers/become too intimately acquainted with her delusional girl persona. The title pretty much exactly shows what to expect here, so it’s probably going to be an uncomfortable, gut-wrenching and painful read, to say the least, but it should be illuminating… pray for my stomach and my heart but it’s a great place to start
Jan 9, 2025
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Miss Anaïs Nin really serves it to us hot in her published journals. doesn‘t hold back. I’m reading one now that I think her estate waited to publish after everyone involved was dead and honey I see why. I need to know what her sign was but I refuse to learn until I finish this book. I wish I could read the journals of people I know
Jan 25, 2024
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Actually fantastic advice. Got hooked on these puppies young. These books were better than grad school. And now I’m a therapist.
Mar 17, 2024
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Yum yum yum! Refreshing.
My ideal recipe is—
Icy cold glass rimmed with Tajin
Tons of lemon juice
Sparkling water
Salt, to taste
Watch it fizz like a potion!
Mar 12, 2024
Nurture the invention of your yearning. Protect your girlish lust by drawing a clear line between fantasy and reality. Choose to stay in fantasyland.
Mar 22, 2024