1. Meditate. Try therapy.
2. Planes, trains, cruise ships, then car as a last resort.
3. My board of directors
@eggs #wondrouswednesdays
Eggs Thanks for playing 🙌🏻💕✨ 2y
1. Meditate. Try therapy.
2. Planes, trains, cruise ships, then car as a last resort.
3. My board of directors
@eggs #wondrouswednesdays
^^ interesting device, this repetitive negation of what “we did NOT do.” A story is about what characters DO, this lists what they DO NOT do.
Who are these people crossing out days on calendars, counting glasses of tea, if not “us?” Our future selves? Our neighbors?
What are “we” doing instead? Living with “certainty and contentment and pleasure in life” and not worrying about the passage of time?
Looking back on contentment of childhood.
so-soOmani granddaughter at a British university, haunted by her grandmother‘s unfulfilled dreams: an orchard to care for, a home of her own. Grief, thwarted desires, compromise. Loss and ex-pat loneliness, intergenerational obsessions, love triangle. Story in suspension, character stuck in grief, skipping time, sometimes repetitive. Lovely, lacking closure. I loved “Celestial Bodies”—this feels more unfinished? Strong trans. 2022
#OnThisDay Catch Up Time!
May 21 - 2019 Celestial Bodies by Johka Alharthi (and translated by Marilyn Booth) became the first Arabic title to win the Man Booker International Prize.
May 22 - 1570 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' (Theatre of the World), is the world's first atlas, published by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp with 70 maps.
May 23 - 1943 Thomas Mann begins writing Dr Faustus
#HistoryGetsLIT will return with proper blurbs tomorrow!
pickFound this gem in the local library and had a magical carpet ride into Oman. The way the author blends the mundane and the magical is outstanding. I love how the narrative is given to different characters and you get to know them from the way they think and live. History comes alive through family stories of several generations. Simply brilliant.
Just finished the chapter on #Oman @Librarybelle #ReadingAsia2021🇴🇲 I‘m actually enjoying this audio more than I expected too. It‘s an interesting mix of food, culture and history although using the Bourdain name to sell this is a little shady.
Taking a break from my #MusicalMemoirs for this #ProcrastinationBook6 / I‘m using this for #ReadingAsia2021 #Oman - I‘m still missing a few cities 🤫
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