Everything was going well with the dinner. No one brought up colonisation or euthanasia or the Springbok Tour.
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Everything was going well with the dinner. No one brought up colonisation or euthanasia or the Springbok Tour.
Taken me a while, but getting into this now.
Which is a good job given that bookclub meets by the end of the month!
pickNon-traditional mostly Emma retelling with a little bit of Pride and Prejudice thrown in. Library Hold that came in. There's a Wait List for it so I went ahead and read. This graphic novel was gorgeous! I truly believe that Jane Austen is for everyone and this showed that. I appreciated that it gave historical context at the end. 🎩
#JaneAdjacent
#PemberLittens
#JaneAustenThenAndNow
Just bobbing around from park to park with my still-delightful book (which also takes a serious look at marital difficulties, in amongst all the fun bits). The Jardin Botanique de France was especially nice.
I absolutely bought this beer because of Jean Cocteau, and it‘s actually delightful. Yay! So is this madcap murder mystery from Alexis Hall. It‘s jam packed with references and oh, how I‘ve GIGGLED at it so far. Gonna read another big chunk while I finish the beer.
“This is a memory I want to keep forever: Grace standing at the stove of her parents‘ rental cottage in one of her dad‘s oversize T-shirts as she makes us a can of SpaghettiOs.”
pickLOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT! Recognizing and accepting queer identity in the face of contentious cultural norms, fleshing out immigrant experience so that while the unique and possibly painful experience of immigration is not ignored, it doesn't try to be a monolith or fall into tropes, doesn't need to form the backbone of the story, interweaving fairy tales, 1/?
2h