Catherine Eaton
@sparrowpost.bsky.social
Writer, naturalist, myth and oak lover, museum and play goer. Pursuer of whimsy. she/her. sparrowpost.com
Barthes sometimes hits on thoughts I have often puzzled over myself and then crafts a sort of path for them. "No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations."
All film adaptions of books have a sort of Frankenstein’s monster quality. cut, reattach, include, not include, fabricate
It's one of those melancholy-weather days. summer just a little bit past its zenith.
I deleted all my posts about being annoyed because I went for a walk
The Sweet Dove Died has turned out to be one of my favorite reads of this year. This was unexpected as I haven’t enjoyed Pym’s other work. I loved the caustic writing, the icy heart at the center, the moments of ‘longing and loathing’ being so intertwined. Both brutal and human. #NYRBWomen25
You never know what you're going to find outside the library. Gone now but not forgotten.
just minding my own business when a Cocteau Twins' song started playing in my head (Evangeline)
The two storms passing through today have given off the strangest rolling thunder. It lumbers on and on continuously as if a loud, rumbling train kept running through for about an hour.
Leonora Carrington in her Greenwich Village apartment, New York.
Dried mangos coated in chili seasoning are amazing. Perhaps one of the most perfect summer foods.
An unexpected reveal in this recent edition of Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles—an original and unpublished ending:
6. Family Of Reclusive Ecclesiastical Bees Find Old Computer Printer And Come Up With Clever Way To Deter Cold Callers.
"You can make a good film which is just that, a good film. But sometimes there are films which are not so good, but they are still worthwhile because they suggest new directions." - Abbas Kiarostami
Our desires interfere with each other, and in the confusion of existence, it’s rare for happiness to pair with the same desire that had longed for it. Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom (transl. Charlotte Mandell) #AContinuation26
This morning of clean, humid air brings with it a peculiar summer pleasure: slowly melting in the July heat with a cold drink while reading Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means. Only Spark would come up with the line as "a cat loves birds" and compare it with the joy of reciting poetry.
It's such a relief to the see the normal light from a sunset rather than through a nightmare yellow lens of wildfire smoke and haze. The nightmare will return soon but for now, this sweet moment of reprieve opens up the sky.
So there, AI, Proust says you can never write a good book.
My new blog post on the wonderful Leonora Carrington. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/07/17/l...
Leonora Carrington: Books by Susan L. Aberth and Mary & Bryan Talbot, and the Paris Exhibition
A post on Leonora Carrington, notably the books - Surrealism, Alchemy and Art by Susan L. Aberth, and Armed with Madness by Mary and Bryan Talbot.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
But do I need a third translation of Bruno Schulz' stories. Likely not, yet still.
The sky mixing its colours before the heat settles in for the day
A friend brought one of Ina Garten's utterly gorgeous trifles to bookclub today and now it's all I can think about. He used lemon pound cake and it is the way.
Galileo Galilei - Sketches of stars in the Orion constellation as viewed by Galileo through his telescope
I was scolded by a wren this evening. There’s a first time for everything.
