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Farewell Alex Trebek - all round great entertainer and Canadian 🇨🇦 - who hosted many shows before he became the Jeopardy! icon.
Bad Diaries, Verb Wellington, LitCrawl - truly wonderful#litcrawl #verbwellington #wellington #wellingtonnz #aotearoa #literature #poetry
Went to see “Baby Done” at the fabulous Lighthouse Cuba Cinema last night:
One of the most remarkable things about Baby Done, other than Rose Matafeo’s glorious performance, is that Zoe’s edges aren’t sanded down at all. She’s unashamedly ambitious and stubborn; she suffers no bullshit. She’s the kind of character you can imagine making producers nervous, the kind of person you’d either warm to at a party or walk away from immediately.
She’s totally someone I’d warm to - and the movie is amazing.
How Sophie Henderson got Baby Done done | The Spinoff
A new book 📚 for the new library 📚 from a new bookshop 📚 #library #books #wellingtonnz #bookshop #nzbooks #nzbookshopday2020 @goodbookshopnz
"The Madman's Library" - The strangest books, manuscripts and other literary curiosities from history (Edward Brooke-Hitching, 2020)
The reading room takes shape… #renovations #kitchen #update #upgrade #warehouseapartment #openplan #design #evastreet #hannahslaneway #wellingtonnz
Van Gogh Alive
Went to see the Van Gogh Alive exhibition for Eva's birthday.
Bill, Mum, Eva and Katie
Paul Melser dinner set
Delighted at our new dinner set made for us by Paul Melser. Really works fantastically with the new kitchen design.
Paul's wonderful pottery is located on Norfolk Road towards Mount Holdsworth in the Tararua Range, Wairarapa, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Regency style in a warehouse loft setting
An eclectic but aligned mixture of styles sometimes just works...
Review of Piranesi - a novel by Susanna Clarke
This new novel by Susanna Clarke (author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell), references (in multiple ways) the work of the Italian artist and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi known for his etchings of “fictitious and atmospheric prisons” (Le Carceri d’Invenzione). It is a ‘realist fantasy’ that conjures up both internal and external ‘otherworldliness’ in a lyrical and ultimately tender tale of loss, forgetting, and remembering.
Themes of finding truth through madness, caring for the dead and the lost, and devotion to place and the world (or worlds), are balanced with examinations of narcissism, ‘transgression’ and deep and enduring malicious manipulation.
It is all the more remarkable that this is told through a tale with initially only one character, and ultimately only a very small number of additional participants. It is a short read, for as the puzzle unfolds, the story draws you rapidly along until its ultimate and satisfying conclusion.
Highly recommended. 📚
Reviews and Links
Home Sweet Labyrinth: Susanna Clarke’s Mysterious ‘Piranesi’ Will Lock You In
The long-awaited followup to ’Jonathan Strange" is even more magically immersive
Thrilling to the magic inside the houses in ‘Piranesi’
Susanna Clarke’s infinitely clever ‘Piranesi’ is enough to make you appreciate life in quarantine
Piranesi Review: Susanna Clarke Turns to Modernist Magical Realism
Susanna Clarke's new novel - "Piranesi"
Fascinating new book 📚
Only just started reading it and it’s intriguing and delightful.
SaveTheExpanse
This is important #SaveTheExpanse
Update: [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u6El-kMgac)
Listening to Scars (Ilan Bluestone)
Listening to Scars - Ilan Bluestone. Especially enjoying ‘I Believe’ and ‘Let Me Know’.
