Finished reading: The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet 📚
Intellectual mystery by the master of intellectual “what-if” history.
Finished reading: Breaking Hel by Miles Cameron 📚
Fantastic conclusion to an epic story. Love, gods, magic, transformation, rebellion, rebirth - it has it all !
Finished reading: Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed 📚
“Participant” journalism - a partisan eye-witness account of the October Revolution in Russia. Gripping and very well written.
Finished reading: Storming Heaven by Miles Cameron 📚
Excellent, fast-paced, second book in the Age of Bronze series. Cracking good.
Finished reading: Disorderly Men by Edward Cahill 📚
A wonderful exploration of the horrors of the way gay men were persecuted in the 60s before the Stonewall Riots. Explores their internalised homophobia and how it damaged their lives but also the difficult but liberating journey of self discovery and acceptance in the wake of violent oppression.
Second movie about voting in Rome in two days !
Conclave - with wonderful performances from Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini, John Lithgow, and many others.
At the Penthouse Cinema, Brooklyn, after dinner at Salty Pidgin.
Incredible black and white Italian feminist film - There’s Still Tomorrow. At the Lighthouse Cuba with Bill.
First breakfast, Floriditas. (feat. A Noble Ruin (Tatum 2024))
