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WELCOME TO MY NEWSLETTER!

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BELLADONNAOFLAVENDER

I have finally decided to bring forth my first ever newsletter which will focus on-

WHAT I READ

WHAT I WATCH

WHAT I TALK ABOUT

WHAT I LEARNT

for now, this newsletter will be weekly, with forced Instagram posts which you haven't already viewed and some broken trails of everything that can interest you.

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I don't know what you like, so I don't know what might appease you but if you don't like what i write/talk about, feel free to email me back, ill accommodate your views. they matter the most to me. You matter a lot. As anyone who travels and has learned how to say 'hello' in different languages knows, my newsletter will talk about Crime, poetry, pieces of literature and links which hopefully are seen,read and taken note of.

This NEWSLETTER is in a way letters to me. I have been book marking and keeping myself entertained by the wonderful compilation on internet of things and the internet in itself, but i would now like to share these simple pleasures of clicking on a mail and finding a love letter and some gore. we will fix ourselves as we go. we will change with the rhythm of times, we are not infallible. just like this fallible poem from a poetry book I read last night.

ashitazu wa / kasumi o wakete / kaeru nari /

mayoishi kumoji / kyō ya harubeki

Among the reeds

the crane parts the mists

and returns.

The cloudy path on which he strayed

will surely clear for him today

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Poetry is sometimes regarded as a solitary practice, but this was not the case at all in premodern Japan. Waka poetry was closely associated with political power and social prestige. Poems were exchanged between lovers, friends, lords, and subjects, even gods and their worshippers. Social relations were created and reinforced through waka, which came to symbolize peace and harmony, refinement and elegance and a distinctively Japanese linguistic and cultural identity. Waka was the most prestigious literary genre of all. It was closely associated with the imperial house, court culture, and the worship of Shinto deities.

Teika became one of the paragons of poetry in the late medieval and early Edo periods, a symbol for an elegant, ingenious, lost way of life

ume ga hana / nioi o utsusu / sode no ue ni /

noki moru tsuki no / kage zo arasou

On a sleeve to which

the plum blossoms

have transferred their scent

vies too the light of the moon

that slips through the eaves

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But talking about all this would be an exercise in nullity if you wouldn't know me. through these newsletters, you will know me, more if you know me well and less if you know me a lot.

https://linktr.ee/belladonnaoflavender

^ Urge,kindly to go through this behemoth link which I call MASTERLINK to who am I.

Here we go:

Heart broken twice

Discovered collaborations am proud of

Gave 100+ books to strangers, friends, etc

Read while high

Mastered the art of saying NO

Learnt about netiquettes

Got cyber bullied many times

Spoke up about cyber harassment some times after reaching my tipping point

Cried, laughed and left speechless many times here

Featured as best blogger on Amazon

Learnt the importance of reading everyday

Read a book a day for a month during lockdown (And the spell continues for most months)

Fell in love with True Crime All over again

Made it my mission to make others read TC

Got obsessed about Astrology

Got bankrupt buying books

Are nothing but read every page some days

Lost 5 kgs and gained 10

Never have I ever brought so many bookish merchandises

Did so many DIYs which I had always postponed

Learnt about Instagram Algorithm

Learnt to scream when bookmails came and scaring new delivery boys as and when

Made friends with so many authors, publishers, fellow book reviewers

Got addicted to Instagram

Became accessible to the disabled

Uncovered some underlying issues in life

And haven't regretted anything - good or bad. Everything has taught me. Everything.

And this is where I come alive, Belladonnaoflavender's Instagram

http://phrontistery.info/q.html Here lies one of my earliest bookmarks ever of a site which is precious vocabulary builder for me

https://johnnylists.com/ Here is one of my favorite tips lists for college bunkers and benchers(NON-COVID set up)

https://lettersofnote.com/ A compulsive collection of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with art at their heart

And it has a particularly amazing letter edit from Dali who is one of my favourite painters. Just now I’m painting a very beautiful smiling woman, bristling with feathers of every colour, held up by a small marble dice that is on fire. The marble dice is supported, in turn, on a quiet, humble little plume of smoke. In the sky are donkeys with parrot heads, grass and sand from the beach, all about to explode, all clean, incredibly objective, and the scene is awash in an indescribable blue, the green, the red and yellow of a parrot, an edible white, the metallic white of a stray breast

https://thenormancrane.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/the-codex-seraphinianus/comment-page-1/ The Codex Seraphinianus is an illustrated encyclopaedia-like book of things that don’t exist written in a language you don’t understand. It was created by the Italian architect and designer Luigi Serafini and published in 1981. Its images are surreal and grotesque and many make perfect sense without the intrusive explanations of understandable words, which would only rob them of their fantastic natures

http://listverse.com/2014/03/30/10-of-the-most-bizarre-books-ever-written/ This listicle collective site is th need of every ineterested soul ever, in anything. it has lists of everything. From unsolvable codes to 13th-century penis doodles in the margins of bibles, history is like an all-encompassing high school cliche that never comes to an end. These books span the course of written history, and they’re all utterly bizarre, and you know how important books are to me, especially the ones which are weird, lesser known masterpieces. Like this link which is waiting to be opened by you.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/ I have loved the use of such complex calculators. check it out! Compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology

https://imgur.com/gallery/oFve6 7 movies which YOU MUST watch, because they say you shouldn't.

My conviction in judging a million-copies-sold book, which is worshipped by so many, is critical so that I may discover the underrated and not be put in a box with others just because https://bookwritten.com/why-ocean-vuong-is-overrated-should-be-the-alternate-title/1768/

In case you are interested to join my TRUE CRIME BOOK CLUB which is- online without many rules or restrictions and the conception is to make as many people read TC as possible is the only goal. You can share interesting articles,updates on reading and anything, everything TRUE CRIME

Until next time,

hasta la vista!