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11 books I read and loved in 2019

on December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 By Ashley Bethard

I love sharing what I love. It should come as no surprise that I relish the thought of books-as-medicine, and if you've got an ill of the heart, I've got a reading recommendation to treat you. To clarify, that is less about appropriating a metaphor and more toward speaking about the power of books in [...]

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today, in @sarahkasbeer’s writing seminar about writing trauma, she said something that was really encouraging: that sometimes, we will keep writing the same things twice, or five times, or a hundred times. we’ll keep returning to duende, the wounds that don’t heal. “write what feels urgent,” she said. sometimes i feel self-conscious about still writing grief, almost 5 years later: it’s like i almost imagine people thinking, ‘she’s still writing about that?’ but when it gets down to doing the work on the page, it’s still the urgent subject. so i keep circling it. this essay is different than the first one i wrote about losing my sibling & the grief i was left with. but it’s one of my favorite things i’ve ever written. it’s like with each piece, i get closer to a more accurate description of grief, its symptoms, its weather. [link to essay in bio] @vida_lit
happy birthday to my babe. 💋 we may not be traveling this year, but you’re still my favorite adventure (& quarantine) partner. here’s to more silver 😏, more gold 💛, more laughs, and more love 💕on your next trip around the sun. #iykyk
2020. What a year. It brought pain, grief, and reckoning. But it also brought lessons and gifts and a lot of gratitude. For one, I’m glad to still be here. Healthy. Blessed with the love of family and friends. And I will honor 2020 because it has, despite its severe toughness, brought me into some good, good things.
“fake eyelashes + Nike sweatshirt,” quarantine self-portrait on polaroid, 12.29.20. all dressed up, nowhere to go.
I can’t express how much I appreciate and love this little bean. I have such trouble slowing down (my physical movement frequently mirrors my anxiety brain), and she has a way of tempering that and stabilizing me.
Some really welcome end-of-year news, as I sit here in sweats eating all the holiday cookies: my essay “Roadmap to a Fire” was selected as a Best of the Net 2020 by @pigeonpagesnyc. Was a pleasure to work with @a_la_ash + Amanda Buckley on this. 💗 Grateful for the honor, and for the safe space that nurtured these words about grief, loss, place, + memory. [Link in bio, if you want to read.]

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