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@Stephenleader@sfba.social we're all trained to appreciate fast and easy in these times, as much fast and as much easy as one can afford. it does take a bit to turn the dial down. she finds all the right people, all the right quotes, to make one consider just how laudable of goals they are or are not, and to come along on her journey. which let's be honest, not one of us would have gotten out of the first chapter, we'd have scuppered off and gone home. which is the point.

@Stephenleader@sfba.social @pootriarch@eldritch.cafe i'm just in the middle with a week left on my loan, but luckily it doesn't look like there's a hold queue. it's a remarkable— journey? work?— yes to all the words. up to now, southeast asia and north america; tibet must be later

it turns out i accidentally learnt a bit of history at the 'six' musical. the right slogan, anyway.

I lived in such a development for a while. On a hillside where butterfly habitat was flattened, the streets were named to mock them. Mission Blue, Swallowtail, Callippe.

Remarkable black-and-white photographs of structures reduced to rubble by the temblor and subsequent fire. As a map geek, I would have liked more maps, but the endpapers are large maps of the shaken and burned area.

This bloke spent the first chapter arguing that the kids in the streets didn't matter, it was really old guys in boardrooms that effected change. I admit to shutting the book before giving him the chance to convince me.

My library loan expired just as Bono was sitting in No 10 marvelling at the important people he knew and the import of the history he was witnessing. U2 have always been a cherished band for me. I returned the book before that could change.