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recs, anyone?

the world's been way too serious lately, and by lately i mean the year 2020, so here's some fun things:

blogs to follow:

ezra koenig of vampire weekend's old old old blog - i look forward to him one day writing a novel; it'll be so lovely.

a friend's fantastic challenging and uplifting life-and-Christ-centered blog 

only met this friend once in person but she is radical in the most fun and totally courageous hence entirely enviable way!

music to check out:

paradise fears - an old but never forgotten favorite

josh turner, not the country music artist - imma let his music speak for itself

kami maltz - it's uncanny how much she sounds like joni mitchell

vampire weekend - a new favorite

ashe - lovely, just lovely

books to read:

Future Grace by John Piper
Beyond Opinion by the late Ravi Zacharias
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week by Tiffany Shlain
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max

...i hate that i'm blanking out on recommendations but that's all i got for now. i just noticed that the books are all nonfiction. WOW, i gotta get back to reading fiction.

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  1. Keturah LambAugust 6, 2020 at 4:20 PM

    Ahhh so glad to see my blog. Must check out those other two. And love what you say about me, but haha, it's so much more true of you. This blog is ROCKING it, and I'm just over here trying to learn all I can ;D

    MB: keturahskorner.blogspot.com
    PB: thegirlwhodoesntexist.com

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