Read & Watch

What stays with me.

Notes on books, talks, and films. I keep the questions and moments that stay with me after the last page or the closing credits.

  1. The Courage to Be DislikedBoundaries, and what comes after

    The Courage to Be Disliked first helped me think about boundaries. What stayed with me later was the question of how to remain connected once those boundaries are clear.

  2. Taylor Swift’s NYU commencement addressTrying, cringing, and letting go

    Passages I copied from a speech, kept in their original English.

  3. The Jade King · Strait Is the GateWhy must love end this way?

    Reading Huo Da and André Gide, and finding that I am not ready to give up my hopes about love.

  4. Protégé (2007)Protégé

    I did not feel I fully understood this film. What I wanted to keep was its question about addiction and emptiness.

  5. Pride & Prejudice (2005)Pride & Prejudice: watching the father

    The love story is there, of course. What stayed with me was Lizzie’s apparently unbothered father.