Sunset over Nuku’alofa port 🇹🇴
Currently reading: Soon I Will be Invincible by Austin Grossman 📚
Finished reading: Less by Andrew Sean Greer 📚
📈📈📈📈📉 (4 stars)
Enjoyable, but a Pulitzer? Some of Arthur’s thoughts on aging resonated strongly.
On and on the plane convulses in the moonlight, like a man turning into a werewolf.
The view out his window was of a circular brick plaza, rather like a pepperoni pizza, which the whistling wind endlessly seasoned with dry leaves.
“Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young.” “Yes! It’s like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won’t ever be back.”
Currently reading: Less by Andrew Sean Greer 📚
Finished reading: Our Share Of Night by Mariana Enriquez 📚
Some beautiful writing here, and some of the horror was unforgettable. I’m not sure I got enough out of the effort to read it sometimes though.
💪 💪💪🤳🤳 (3 stars)
“Gods always behave like the people who make them.” Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse
“She doesn’t name the misfortunes, as if relating them could contaminate the diaphanous atmosphere of her adorable hotel.”
If any of my New Zealand readers (hi mum! 👋) wanted to provide a submission on this bill for our trans and non-binary friends:
I don’t think this is a main road, Google Maps 🇹🇴
Historian and presenter Simon Schama on Pete Hegseth’s D-Day speech, quoted in The Guardian:
Hegseth’s remarks were a “special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity and comically ludicrous self-importance”.
“As if the little people’s rage against immigration somehow is superior to the war against the 3rd Reich and entitles this comic book nobody to lecture the actual heroes.”
This weeks’ Herb Sunday is pretty special.
Favourite tracks (there are so so many):
Van Morrison - Dweller On The Threshold
Bruce Springsteen - Between Heaven And Earth
Spotify 💩
Living his best life
