Sara T Bond
Author, mom, and all-around badass. She/her
- For the past two weeks and into next week, I will have had various appointments three days a week, robbing me of my writing time during the day. The next two weeks after that, I'll be in Atlanta visiting family. That is five weeks without writing time. I'm going to lose my mind.
- Out for writing, and got into a short convo with a man about the evils of AI. How it's going to drive everyone out of work to make billionaires more money, how it fails at thinking, how it'll make us all worse off because it's being driven by the needs of capitalism instead of real people's needs.
- I'm reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, and I love the way he uses details to develop good characters. Thirty pages in, and it's constant description of these characters in the world, but the details of their lives make you know exactly who they are.
- For instance, their apartment with monsteras, cast-iron pots, olive wood ladles,herringbone tweed blankets, and reproduction prints of Britsh wartime posters tells you just how bougie they are. The salmon and egg they order for brunch, the fact that they have no German friends living in Berlin.
- They're creatives in the tech industry and stifle when they go back home to find their friends in comfortable stasis with their families, and they're desperate to breathe when they get to the departures terminal and reclaim their "freedom" as expats with perfectly curated aesthetic lives.
- I managed to finish writing a chapter in the stolen moments of today: fifteen minutes during piano lesson, thirty minutes during dance class, five minutes between checkin an the doctor is ready to see you. I'm rewarding myself with reading this incredible book tonight. Have you read it?
