Samoa was incredible ❤️
Currently reading: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones 📚
Finished reading: Soon I Will be Invincible by Austin Grossman 📚
🦹 🦹🦹🫤🫤 (3/5 stars)
This wasn’t as much fun as it should have been, and definitely didn’t stick the landing.
Pure magic day in the beautiful Kingdom of Tonga, this place never stops filling our hearts 🇹🇴
Tonga evening 🇹🇴
Sunset over Nuku’alofa port 🇹🇴
Currently reading: Soon I Will be Invincible by Austin Grossman 📚
Finished reading: Less by Andrew Sean Greer 📚
📈📈📈📈📉 (4 stars)
Enjoyable, but a Pulitzer? Some of Arthur’s thoughts on aging resonated strongly.
On and on the plane convulses in the moonlight, like a man turning into a werewolf.
The view out his window was of a circular brick plaza, rather like a pepperoni pizza, which the whistling wind endlessly seasoned with dry leaves.
“Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young.” “Yes! It’s like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won’t ever be back.”
Currently reading: Less by Andrew Sean Greer 📚
Finished reading: Our Share Of Night by Mariana Enriquez 📚
Some beautiful writing here, and some of the horror was unforgettable. I’m not sure I got enough out of the effort to read it sometimes though.
💪 💪💪🤳🤳 (3 stars)
“Gods always behave like the people who make them.” Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse
“She doesn’t name the misfortunes, as if relating them could contaminate the diaphanous atmosphere of her adorable hotel.”