Finished reading: In Youth Is Pleasure by Denton Welch 📚
Languid, lyrical, intoxicating. In youth, pleasure.
#book #queer
Currently reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚
Chapter / Day 13 - “Three Hours” - On finding focus in the chaos.
Basically, many of the most productive people in the world focused their attention and energy on a three hour (ish) period of the day …
Love this :)
Book of the Day - “The Future is History” (Masha Gessen, 2017)
Subtitled “How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia”. A warning we need to heed.
#books #history #booksky #totalitarianism
Currently reading: The Future is History by Masha Gessen 📚
Prescient book from 2017 - a lot of the reviews at the time criticised Gessen for calling Putin’s regime “totalitarian”.
Glorious day in Pōneke the day before the hikoi mō Te Tiriti hits town.
It’s going to be a fascinating day tomorrow.
Posting on Bluesky
I’ve set up an account on bsky.app
I love micro.blog - but it’s small and paid.
I love that I can use my own domain (jeremybaker.nz) as my handle!
And lots of other cool stuff about Bluesky:
Finished reading: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 📚
Darkly funny and sardonic. Listless tale of avoidance. Not sure about the end, but many memorable vignettes.
