a bookish day in Edinburgh

Hello! For the past week I've been kind of feeling a little bit under the weather. I've been kind of sick, which is weird because usually I'm not sick for that long. It sucks because I'm in Edinburgh and I want to go outside and explore, but I couldn't really because I just kind of had a fever and a headache. Really weird. And I'm also kind of in a hypochondriac. I always think it's never gonna go away. I still kind of feel a little bit weird, but today I just really want to go outside, have a little bit of a bookish day because I want to go to the library. I have a book that I can pick up because I reserved it. I would love to go to the writer's museum here and I would really like to check out a few bookstores. And first thing I'm gonna do probably is gonna I'm gonna go to a cafe and read a little bit in my current book, which is The Catcher in the Rye. I just started it and I'm just gonna see how I feel and I'm gonna take it slow and just chill a little bit. It's also the perfect weather for like a bookish day. It's very gloomy, but it's not raining. I'm right now walking to the Milkman. I've seen it from outside and it's the most pretty building for a coffee shop. It's like really narrow. I'm not sure if I'm gonna be I was just at cafe for a while. I'm now on my way to the writer's museum. I just borrowed If We Were Villains from the library. It's very windy today. Hello, I'm back. I wanted to go to a bookshop called The Gently Mad, but it was a little bit more far out of the city and I would have needed to take the bus and my headache got worse again and I kind of didn't want to risk anything because I'm still not fully healthy again. Still have a little bit of a fever, I think. It's so weird. It doesn't go away. Anyway, but I did go into Armchair Books, a bookshop. It's like a secondhand bookshop that I already went to, but I did pick up some books. I picked up two books and I'm gonna give you a collective book haul as of recently. I also got a business card that I can put in my journal from Armchair Books. So the first one, oh no, my teacher's left a stain. This here is a poetry book that my friend Ruby recommended to me when we were in Dawn's bookshop. It's a beautiful bookshop in London. That's where I got this poetry book. I have never really read poetry before because I'm kind of intimidated by it because I kind of want to read English poetry, but English is not my first language because I always feel like it takes me very long to understand English poems. I don't know, but I really want to get better at it, so I'm just gonna take this very slow and read like one poem in the morning and one before going to bed. Then the next one you already saw, I got this from the library today. I read The Secret History by Donna Tartt like one year ago, a little bit more than a year ago, and I really liked it and people say it's pretty similar, so I think I'm gonna really like this and I think it's also very like dark academia, so I think this would suit Edinburgh. Then I already showed you this, my current read. I also got this from the library, The Catcher in the Rye. And then from armchairbooks, I got two books that I already have, but I can justify the purchase, okay? I own the copies that are translations, like German translations, and I really want to have the original, like the English copy. And so first I got Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I have- wait, I have the first, the third, the sixth, and the seventh already in English, so I now need- only have the fourth and the fifth left that I have to get. And this is the first edition and I love how they look so much, I think they're so pretty. I also have the sixth and the seventh in this first edition. And then I also- The Hobbit, cute. Also kind of want to read Lord of the Rings again because I also only read the German translation, so yeah. I already know that I will have to send a package home with some stuff because I'm not gonna be able to fit everything in my suitcases again. So now it is- I still have some of the afternoon left and I'm gonna write a letter because I really like writing letters. And I got some post stamps and there's the queen on them. And I think writing letters is also kind of a bookish thing to do.