Welcome!
If you’ve made it to this blog post it means you’ve come from my small group of friends on my close friends story on Instagram or one of those people gave you the link…..Regardless of how you’ve found this, welcome! I decided to start a blog in part because of my dear friend
and her wonderful, beautiful blog, in part because I told friends and family I would write about my experiences abroad and then never did, AND in part because I want to talk about books. I love books! I will probably bore you all terribly talking about all the books I read, but stay because maybe, possibly, I’ll talk about my life.I’m thinking that I will be doing monthly blog posts about the media I consumed that month. I say media because while I love books, I consume music, movies, and tv shows just as much if not more than books and it would be impossible for me to not talk about them. As a girl who fortunately got to live in a time period where Blockbuster still existed, I have fond memories of going to Blockbuster to find a movie to watch and I hold onto that nostalgia. My town’s Blockbuster is now a Mattress Firm (read: money laundering scheme) and the only Blockbuster left in the country is in the town that my dad and his girlfriend have moved to! I will be visiting at some point and going absolutely crazy in there. Anyways, I have started to collect DVDs of my favorite movies and tv shows because I have a lot of issues with streaming services, namely the fact that they can choose to wipe media, that numerous people worked countless hours on to produce, off the face of the earth (I’m looking at you HBO Max). Also it infuriates me that I can never seem to find whatever I want to watch. What do you mean Pride and Prejudice (2005) was on Netflix last week and now its only available to buy on Amazon Prime for $20??? (Yes I obviously have Pride and Prejudice on DVD now, who do you think I am) There is just something so nostalgic about watching media on a disc, this summer I showed Anna the pilot of my favorite show in the world, The X-Files. My sister and I are (very leisurely) making our way through The X-Files on Hulu, where thankfully they have stayed since 2021, but I have been in the process of collecting the whole show on DVD. We popped in the disc and sat down and lo and behold! The picture quality was worse than on Hulu, Huzzah! Iris, you might ask, why in the world would you want to watch something that is lower in quality when you can watch it on a streaming service your mom pays for? Its nostalgic and it brings me joy, thats why. The X-Files is a quintessential ‘90s show (see Dana Scully’s Season 1 shoulder pad pant suits) and having the quality that it probably aired with is a part of the viewing experience. Imagine watching It’s A Wonderful Life in color or White Christmas without Technicolor, its criminal!
Sorry for that insane rambling (I feel very passionate about collecting physical media, can you tell??) but look out for those monthly wrap ups where I will definitely be letting you know if I got the movie from discount stores for $4.
Acknowledging that the title of this blog is about the public library, I will be rambling about the public library and the overconsumption of books in a different blog post. I feel that one 85-year-old woman adjacent rant about how the internet is ruining our lives is enough for one post, so watch for that later! I also hope to write a bit (a lot) about my time abroad and my many, many feelings about that.
Also, to all my lovely family and friends that I love all so dearly, please bully me and nag me and push me to keep doing this blog. I’ve been wanting to do it for a while but I know myself too well and know that I might not stick with this unless I have external and extremely intense pressure.
See you (hopefully) soon,
Iris