Open Tabs #24

03.02.25 -- reading, watching, listening

Welcome to this week’s edition of Open Tabs, where I share my current reads, recent obsessions, and media consumptions every Sunday!

What’s on my desk this week.

Hello, welcome to March. Spring is on the way!

I didn’t read much or consume a lot of media this week, which is maybe a good thing. Instead, I spent most of my evenings working on my journals (plural!). There’s something about sitting at my desk with my notebook, no noise, and just thinking or writing or making little collages, or doing whatever I be might doing in my journal. It’s a great way to de-stress!

I finally sent a new bookish post this week! I shared my reading notes from Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Ozlu.

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Reading [Books]

• Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

I have a recurring issue with Rebecca Solnit’s work. It’s just fine. I mainly return to it because she writes a lot about hope in the face of political burnout, and I appreciate some of her ideas. However, I find her work repetitive, which makes it feel…surface-level. I always leave wanting a little more from it. It just doesn’t spark anything inside me. Perhaps if I pick up one of her books on a different topic (I have Wanderlust on my shelves), that’ll work better.

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Reading [Short Story]

• "The St. Alwynn Girls at Sea” by Sheila Heti (New Yorker)

I listened to Sheila Heti read her recent short story on The Writer’s Voice. A group of girls have been sent off to school at sea to escape an unspecified war. Their days center around letters from the boys’ ship, as they make attempts to understand their circumstances (as children sent away from parents, as young women in a world of men). This made me think of something between Abigail and The Lightness.

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Crane Months

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Watching [Movie]

• Spaceship Earth (2020)

I’ve been wanting to watch this documentary for years and finally got around to it. I knew a small bit about Biosphere 2 (it relates to a lot of topics I like to learn about). Turns out, the story behind it is even more interesting than I thought! If you also find this interesting, I recommend reading Last Futures by Douglas Murphy.

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Watching [YouTube]

I love Bitter Melon Bindery’s bookbinding videos. In this one, she’s rebinding a copy of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.

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Listening [Music]

This is the album I’ve been playing to get me up and moving in the mornings.

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Googling

• Mount Analogue

• caravaggio

• coffee cake recipe

• edna st. vincent millay

• harney & sons tea flavors

Last Week…

Open Tabs [Weekly] #23

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