My Digital Garden
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Hello & welcome ✦
you've found my little corner of the internet
This is where I document the books I've been reading, music that's living rent-free in my head, and movies I can't stop thinking about. Pull up a chair, stay a while — you might find something you love too. 🌿
Finally finished that 900-page novel and I have thoughts
Three weeks, two bookmark replacements, and one very dramatic finale later — I am changed. The world-building in the final act was everything I'd been hoping for and the ending made me sit quietly for about twenty minutes.
📖 fiction✦ fav of the year
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Albums I've been listening to on repeat this month
There's something about late-night headphone sessions where certain albums just click differently. Here's my curated chaos from March — indie, ambient, and one pop record I am not ashamed of at all.
🎵 playlist✦ monthly picks
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Watched 6 films this weekend — here's the full ranking
A rainy Saturday, a big blanket, and a queue that had been sitting there for months. I watched everything from a 1970s thriller to a brand new release and honestly? The old one won. Full breakdown inside.
🎬 marathon✦ ranked
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🌿 About Me

Welcome to my little digital space! I'm a reader, listener, and watcher who decided the internet needed one more personal blog about niche opinions on art and stories.

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Who am I?
Hey! I'm the person behind this garden. I've been running personal websites since forever and this is the current iteration — a calm, cozy place to document what I'm consuming and loving. I believe in slow reading, deeply felt music, and rewatching films enough times to notice something new each time.
Why this site?
Social media never quite gave me the space to actually write about the things I care about. Here I can ramble at length about why a particular album changed my week, or give an honest 800-word review of a book I stayed up until 3am to finish. This is that space.
Currently into
  • Reading: working through a big fantasy series 📖
  • Listening: ambient/post-rock and one guilty-pleasure pop record 🎵
  • Watching: classic films I embarrassingly haven't seen yet 🎬
  • Collecting: pressed flowers and vintage bookmarks 🌸

📖 Books

Everything I've read, loved, and occasionally thrown across the room. Mostly fantasy, literary fiction, and anything with good prose.

📖
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro
literary
★★★★★
📚
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
fantasy
★★★★★
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
historical
★★★★★
🌿
Circe
Madeline Miller
mythology
★★★★☆
🌊
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
magical
★★★★☆
🍃
Bewilderment
Richard Powers
literary
★★★★☆

🎵 Music

Albums, artists, and late-night playlists. I tend toward atmospheric and lyrical things but the tastes are eclectic.

🎵
In Rainbows
Radiohead
art rock
★★★★★
🎶
Blue
Joni Mitchell
folk
★★★★★
🌙
For Emma, Forever Ago
Bon Iver
indie folk
★★★★★
Immunity
Clairo
bedroom pop
★★★★☆
🎸
Hospice
The Antlers
indie rock
★★★★★
🌿
Carrie & Lowell
Sufjan Stevens
folk
★★★★★

🎬 Movies

Films that stayed with me, ranked and reviewed with an embarrassing level of sincerity.

🎬
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Céline Sciamma, 2019
drama
★★★★★
🌊
Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki, 2001
animation
★★★★★
Arrival
Denis Villeneuve, 2016
sci-fi
★★★★★
🍃
The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018
period drama
★★★★☆
🌙
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins, 2016
drama
★★★★★
🎭
Capernaum
Nadine Labaki, 2018
drama
★★★★★

🎮 Games

Games I've finished, loved, or gotten completely lost in. Story-driven, atmospheric, and the occasional thing I told myself I'd only play for an hour.

🎮
Journey
thatgamecompany, 2012
atmospheric
★★★★★
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Hollow Knight
Team Cherry, 2017
metroidvania
★★★★★
Disco Elysium
ZA/UM, 2019
RPG
★★★★★
🌙
Celeste
Maddy Thorson, 2018
platformer
★★★★★
🍃
Stardew Valley
ConcernedApe, 2016
cozy
★★★★★
🌊
Outer Wilds
Mobius Digital, 2019
exploration
★★★★★