The worst of the author‘s invective is against the French. It‘s a wonder this man has any friends, but then again, his wife is divorcing him and he‘s on an extended solo outing. 🧐
But his contempt for the French may be justified (sorry all my French friends). At the time he wrote this book the French were nuking Pacific islands mercilessly. France, at least at the time, was the world‘s largest supplier of nuclear weapons.
#10BeforeTheEnd update:
I finished Paris noir and The Adventures of Vela. I was planning on starting Mejnun and Leyla but after Vela, I need a break on the long-form poetry front, so Soul Mountain it is! As it is a doorstop and I have a few days off, it should be perfect.
@ChaoticMissAdventures
Pic is of the Chinese Garden in Chaumont, back in June
#NobelPrize
pickSaw this on a list of best nonfiction that reads like fiction. I learned so much about Tibet — it‘s huge! And such severe altitude and weather. And the Chinese ruined everything. Fascinating.
More about food in #Samoa.
#foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Finally, a description of some food in #Samoa. #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Current audiobook…This one was not really on my radar, but I liked the movie trailer and decided to check it out.
pickWe‘ve listened to this book a dozen times before in the car and we could probably listen to it a dozen times more. It‘s just a really good audiobook.
pickThis was good! 4.5⭐
Cristoff spends time in small towns in the Patagonian meseta (plateau lands), getting to know the rhythms of life and the locals, staying long enough to become a recognisable, if temporary, community feature to whom people open up about their lives.
Cristoff augments testimony with some historical research and, probably, a degree of literary licence, which coheres into a picture of brittle lives dwarfed by a vast landscape, ⬇️
