In Your Free Time

If you want to better understand the girl (and the mindset) behind the blog, here are a few suggestions to get you started...

BOOKS

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

Evening Is the Whole Day

Preeta Samarasan

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

The Fault in Our Stars
John Green

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Lorrie Moore

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown

The Harry Potter series
JK Rowling

PLAYS

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams

The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde

POETRY

The Captain's Verses

Pablo Neruda

ARTICLES

"100 Ways You Can Start Loving Yourself Right Now"

Gala Darling

[can be read here]

"Does Your Language Shape How You Think?"
Guy Deutscher, The New York Times
[can be read here]

VIDEO

Draw With Me
Short movie

[can be viewed here]

Doctor Who
Television series
[new series can be viewed on Netflix or here]

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Full-length movie
[French with English subtitles]
[can be viewed here, but you didn't get that link from me]

The VlogBrothers
John and Hank Green
YouTube channel
[can be viewed here]

Crash Course
John and Hank Green
YouTube channel
[can be viewed here]

COMICS

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
Christopher Hastings
[can be read here, new readers should go here, archives here]

xkcd
Randall Munroe
[can be read here, archives here]

Hark! A Vagrant
Kate Beaton
[can be read here, archives here]

A Softer World
Emily Horne and Joey Comeau
[can be read here, archives here]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Zach Weiner
[can be read here, archives here]

Questionable Content
Jeph Jacques
[can be read here, archives here]

Nimona
Noelle Stevenson
[can be read here, archives here]