2024! Read it & Weep!

My year in book quotes + some recommendations

In 2024 I read 82 books. Some intellectually stimulated, others gave hot goss, and a few were a waste of time. But! Even the worst of them had at least one “ya totally” moment for me. (Probably because they were all written by humans.<3)

Sure, we read to escape, but I think just as often we read to sit with ourselves, to see our own thoughts and feelings perfectly articulated in someone else’s words.

So! Here are 20 times I saw myself reflected in a book this year. I posted most of these on Instagram, but added a few news ones + context for each.

Here’s to continuing to make books all about me in 2025. 😁 I hope you do the same.

Moved from LA to NY! Here I am on moving day, masking the embarrassment of my giant a moving truck with a smile.

In February, before my move, my Fiat decided to randomly shut off somewhere by the San Gabriel Mountains. She’s dramatic but I miss her<3

In March I went to Costa Rica with college friends. Vibes were just as perfect as they look here, though the sand was over 100°.

In Costa Rica we also enjoyed nightly sunset swims on a private beach. Lucky us!

I moved to the Lower East Side because I knew it would be awake all night & asleep in the morning, just like me. Look at my roof view!

I read the original Fleabag play & spent a lot of time wishing for Phoebe Waller-Bridge to make something else soon (Indiana Jones didn’t cut it).

Met my family in Hawaii! Here we are about to order piña coladas.

I got these Prada ballet flats on Poshmark & then packed them on vacation because I thought they’d look cute on the beach. A terrible idea.

Not a slight at my uptown friends, who are too busy enjoying Central Park to take offense, but I’m a Downtown girly through & through.

Me and Morgan reading on one of the last days of summer. If books = personality, let it be known that I was reading about a delusional princess.

This is me in JULY trying on this coat I would by that same day because, when you know, you know.

Not super chill girl of me to mention politics BUT real feelings were felt this November, by me & a lot of women.

Cue the cute boyfriend moment to prove I don’t hate men!!

Got to see Grandma this December at a time when we all really needed each other. <3

This is what I now tell myself after coming close to an opportunity & telling everyone about it, only for it to not pan out. Lol

My sister and I skipping off into the Sunset (The Grove Brandy Melville) after a year plus apart.

In this quote she’s actually referring to her pet dog named Hailey & I’m kind of offended she even spells it the same.

BOOK RECS! Here were my top 12 out of 82:

1. Intermezzo - Sally Rooney
   Read if you're ready to CRY and unpack complex family dynamics—but are willing to take a loooOoong scenic route to get there.

2. Green Dot - Madeleine Gray
   If you loved Fleabag and can handle an unlikeable protagonist who, at her core, is just a girl (also, if you're hooked on Love Island Australia).

3. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir - Griffin Dunne
   Perfect if you enjoy pausing mid-read to frantically Google the names of everyone mentioned.

4. The Husbands - Holly Gramazio

   If you believe in love at first sight, don't believe in it, or aren’t sure whether you believe in it.

5. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
   If you’re prepared to CRY, but are also an intellectual.

6. The Princess of 72nd Street - Elaine Kraf
   If you secretly think your mental illness makes you interesting—and/or if you're delusional.

7. Too Much and Not the Mood - Durga Chew-Bose
   If you want to read about the beauty of the day-to-day from someone who sees it exactly like you, but can articulate it much better.

8. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
   If you haven’t read it yet, duh.

9. The Sound of Gravel - Ruth Wariner
   If you loved Educated and have the emotional bandwidth to take on another story like it.

10. Sex & Rage - Eve Babitz
    If you need a frivolous beach read written by an it-girl whose life was even more fascinating than her fiction. (Also an iconic cover to read on public transport)

11. Crossroads - Jonathon Frazen
    If you picture a movie in your head while you read, and don't mind if that movie is a 3+ hour family drama where not much happens, but a lot is felt.

12. Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States - Samantha Allen
    If you want to read about marginalized lives, but in a way that won’t cause you to lose faith in humanity and spiral.

Happy reading! ✧˖°.⊹📖⊹.°˖✧