Status Updates From The Pillow Book

"We were hoping to meet some people along the way, but to our great disappointment all we came across was the odd worthless commoner and a lowly priest or two."
Was Sei Shōnagon the Kim Kardashian of her time??

At the end of a list called "Disturbing Things",
"A child who's still too young to talk throws his little heads back and bursts into tears, and won't let anyone pick him up and comfort him."
This was my Christmas, quite disturbing.

thank god i brought this during the tea ceremony part of the wedding... cba to read another 10 pages bc it's 12am rn and im exhausted. may finish it tomorrow? god willing... but yeah, i'm gonna miss this a a lot

50 more pages and i'm gonna be done... i feel sadness bc of its immersion into the world, despite it being so old a work.

this part, while i still love sei's writing... some of her points are so off-base it's kinda entitled at parts; but hey, who'd say any different when you're a gentlewoman for an empress in 10th century japan? sometimes, all we need is sass and sei encompasses that

is this gonna be an absolute 5 stars? :)))